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"Oh, you think we're even you and I? I know of way we can both earn what we deserve."

Nicolas Cage is known for his wayward choice in terms of films recent years. His career had some ups and downs. As a result, the opinions on his acting talent in the world of film lovers are rather divided. His performance as Eddie King, a manic, coke-snorting, aggressive underworld figure, who's also not afraid to handle opponents in a rough and cruel way, is an exceptional case. At first sight it isn't a thunderous acting performance that he delivers and it tends to be rather ridiculous. A kind of cartoonish character whose tantrums and neurotic behavior comes across as exaggerated. At first glance he looks like a parody of Tony Clifton (an Andy Kaufman impersonation) with a weird wig, a walrus-like mustache and glued on fake nose. Let him wear some over-sized sunglasses on his fake nose and you'd swear it's Roy Orbinson. But at the same time I thought he was incomparable. In other words, it's hard to define Cage's acting as being woefully bad or masterfully brilliant.

Unfortunately this isn't sufficient enough to assess "Arsenal" as an excellent film. The story on its own isn't really brilliant or innovative. To be honest it's mostly boring and meaningless. The main characters who actually carry the entire film, with Cage in the background acting as an accessory to flare up the tension with bloody and highly aggressive scenes in slow motion, are JP (Adrian Grenier) and Mikey (Johnathon Schaech). The beginning shows how the two experienced their childhood. A not so rosy picture of two future-less teenagers who spend their time hanging around in an arcade, because it isn't so pleasant to be at home. One day Mikey comes home and makes a shocking discovery. That's a crucial moment. From there on their path go into opposite directions. As you can witness when they are adults. JP is the person who walked the honest path. He's the owner of a successful construction company. Mikey on the other hand, has chosen the side of Eddie King and ends up as a small-time gangster. After being robbed and losing a package of valuable drugs and not being able to pay of the money he owns Eddie, the latter has this masterful plan to arrange the matter. Now the truly honest brother must pull out all the stops to save Mikey. And that's what this movie is all about.

The whole movie revolves around the loyalty between the two brothers. Even if Mikey is a loser whose life is a concatenation of making wrong decisions and crime, yet JP remains faithful to him and he does his utmost to free him. And this with the help of Sal, a sort of undercover agent played by John Cusack who's wearing a bandanna and holding an e-cigarette. The only purpose he has is to provide JP the necessary clues so he can track down those who are responsible. Trust me, it sounds more fascinating than it looks. The initiative to fill the film with bloody, raw violent scenes with lot of blood flowing freely out of inflicted injuries from the victims, won't ensure that "Arsenal" rises to an acceptable level. And may I also inform the sports fans for a moment? There's a lot of kicking around, but the film has nothing to do with the famous soccer team.

Ultimately, "Arsenal" didn't become the thriller it intended to be. The story was too simplistic, the violence too excessive and the characters too one-sided and uninspired. Strange but true, the only bright spot in this film is the exorbitant and crazy role played by Cage. Normally, the failure of a film is mostly due to the failure of Cage's contribution. "Arsenal" is in my opinion a low-budget movie with kinda sounding names participating in it. Yet another proof that this isn't a guarantee to get an excellent end result. Finally, the most striking fact I saw in this film. Despite 23 years passed and the two brothers grew into adult men with graying hair and beard, Eddie King still had the same appearance. Apparently sniffing hallucinogenic drugs has a preservative effect.

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"Someone once asked me why I stick up for Mikey. They clearly don't have a brother." JP (Grenier) has always looked up to his older brother Mikey (Schaech). As adults JP is the one that is supporting and trying to help Mikey anyway he can. Mickey finds himself in trouble once again and goes to a mob boss for help. After receiving a phone call JP once again is in a position where Mickey needs his help, but this time is different. First of all, this movie is not bad at all. It is a decent B movie. On the other hand, it is extremely generic and I'm sure even just reading my synopsis of the movie you can predict everything that is going to happen and how it will turn out. John Cusack is in this for about 2 minutes and his character is pretty useless. Cage is, as usual, over the top and I'm not really sure what he was going for with his acting in this. All that said, most people that watch movies like this watch for the action and not the acting or story that much. If you are one of those people you will enjoy this. Overall, generic and predictable. A really good made-for-TV type movie that is nothing to rush out and see. I give this a C.

Not sure who thought Adrian Grenier was a good lead in an actioner but he kinda seemed out of place in his role. Not to say he is a bad actor but he didn't fit the role here. The best role and acting in the movie belongs to Johnathon Schaech. He might have played a supporting role but his character had the character development and emotional layers to it. They could have just focused the story on his and Nicolas Cage's character. And coming to Nicolas Cage, say what u want about the man but he still really do a great job in whatever role he takes up. This movie may not be up to his standards as an actor but he played the role the second time in the best way possible. Of course,when he did this role the 1st time,he had more screen time and more craziness to his character. Here,it's toned down a little. I would say that's a mistake on the director and screen writer's part because Nicolas Cage is easily the selling factor of the movie and why would you limit his screen time and the amount of crazy acting he could deliver? Still,Nicolas Cage did a great job and the movie is easily worth watching for him but i do wish he takes less roles like this and returns to serious,award worthy roles and movies. He has the talent and would be such a waste to be a regular in movies like this. The movie itself wasn't a terrible one and at the same time,isn't anything to rush out and watch. Too average and doesn't have any factor that puts it different from other DTV movies except for the presence of Nicolas Cage. It's nice to watch once but that's it.

Nicolas Cage portrays another over-the-top cartoonish character here, as he plays Eddie King, a sadistic and psycho mob boss who talks like he's always constipated and sports a horrific looking hairpiece. He decides to kidnap the screw- up brother (Johnathon Schaech) and extort his straight arrow successful brother (Adrian Grenier) for 350K.

Often in the film, there's extreme brutal bloody violence, sometimes in slo-mo, and, as expected, lots of explicit language and on screen drug use. The movie is directed by Steven C. Miller with a first-time screenplay from Jason Mosberg.

Overall, unless you like intense bloody violence or wants to laugh at Cage's character here, I don't really see the point in one viewing this flick.

I really didn't know anything about the movie and so I didn't have any high expectations. Not like people who actually looked at the cast and saw John Cusack and Nicholas Cage there. Yet it still disappointed, with the slow boring script and the pointless scenes.

This should have been the side story in a police procedural episode, not a standalone film. There were interesting shots, especially at the end, so I can't fault the director too much. The acting was OKish, mostly from Adrian Grenier and Johnathon Schaech (man, when did he get so massively ripped?!). Nicholas Cage played one of his wacky roles, but he wasn't interesting, threatening or amusing, simply weird. And Cusack is a supporting role, just as Cage, to get people to watch the film in the first place.

Bottom line: the subject alone has been done to death, so the film needed something extra to make it interesting. They tried with the cast, but without a good script, it is just a waste.

This is a watchable movie, mainly in favor of Nicolas Cage acting.

Nevertheless, the plot is superficial and degrades the movie.

If I would not have liked Cage, I would not watch it to the end.

If you like plain action, try it. If you are looking for a little more, don't.

Poor Adrian Grenier. This movie was not the best laid plans for a future as a leading man.

The 1st clue was Nicolas Cage himself. I like Cage and all but he tends to suck the very essence out of a film with his over the top bad acting.

Grenier plays the good little brother trying to make sure his bad big brother gets on the right path after being on the wrong one for so long. Semi ironic as it's big bro who 1st introduce baby bro to the right path. It's a story I literally herd a thousand times, in fact I think I've seen at lest one movie a week with this subject. The stories of the two brothers is weak, and not implemented very well by the filmmakers or the actors playing them.

And there was absolutely no point for John Cussack to be in this film. They could have saved some cash and gotten someone else. Spend it on some better action scenes.

So Grenier's leading role status is up in the air. I hope he has an awesome real life entourage he can lean on.

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This movie was decently enjoyable trash for a while. then it became hilariously bad. i was laughing at so many terrible scenes, including one of the worst scenes of acting ever by my buddy nick cage. he's fallen so far. i know the talent is in there, but he keeps making trash movies. this movie is terrible. so many dumb parts and things that make no sense. bad acting and dialogue all around. and this hysterical slow motion thing they try to do, similar to 300 but executed horrendously. the slo-mo lasted so long in some parts and they overdid it like crazy, the final scene had like 10 slo-mo parts. the only reason i didn't give it a half star is because i was never bored and never sped it up, i've had much worse experiences (1 viewing)

john cusack shares top billing but is not in the film that much, he's in about 1/5 of the movie...popping in and out. nick cage is way too over the top, that initially turned me off a little bit but no big deal. adrien grenier is getting older and his acting tho not great is improving. this movie is ultra-violent and gory.

there's a lot of little things wrong about this film but in all honesty it was still quite enjoyable. did i mention that nick cage is way way too much over the top???

not taxing on the brain and it should get most viewers adrenaline pumping. action was good...acting was fairly good all around and the time flew by watching this movie. fairly basic plot but who cares, i totally enjoyed it. fans of crime action thrillers should like it.

surprised at the 4 rating here, i didn't try to boost it up and gave it an honest rating of 6...in my opinion its somewhere in high 5s to a 6 but will not make it pass 6. the 4 is undeserving and i really enjoy these type of films every once in a while.

no one actor(ress) stood out but everybody was competent. did i mention that nick cage was way way over the top already...hahaha...enjoy the movie for what it is, don't try to pick it apart. decent crime revenge film, in no way did i feel cheated watching this movie and i've felt cheated many times before.

I am so sick of everyone not understanding nic cage. NONE of these ridiculous over the top roles in movies are supposed to be taken seriously. We have already established years ago that he can actually act and is super talented. He knows that and is content with that. He's the one celebrity who did his serious roles and decided to have hilarious fun with his fame. He's not interested in spending 60 years doing the same serious crap and sequels over and over. He's so different and fun. This man cracks me up so much. Me and my husband idolize him.

If you're a fan of his over the top crazy roles with cage rage this will be your fave so far.

The plot and story line itself are pretty bad and so is the acting but if you put it on just to laugh at nic then it's def for you. His ensemble and the slo mo are by far the best thing I've ever seen!!

Love him always !

Side note John cusack looks HILARIOUS as well.

This is a very good action movie, love the slow mo make all the shootings look sick. Really enjoyed this 🙂

Call it a brother love, blue collar descends to crime collar movie. Cusack and Cage obviously slummed to do this. If blue collar life now equals drugs and one or less parents, lets hear it for Hollywood stereotyping. I can see why Cusack maybe had to do this. He isn't seen much anymore. But Cage still seems to be working. The whole reason for this movie, is a big question mark. Is it to feature this new actor Grenier? Who knows? The script tries for Tarentino and fails. The Grenier character, J.P., somehow has unexplained combat skills, even though he just owns a construction company. His business partner has a neck brace on later into the movie, but that is never explained, just inferred. And the brothers get away with what they get away with at the end without, well, any explanation at all. Is it worth the watch? Only if there isn't anything better to watch. Or if you have anything better to do Cage's and Cusack's presence are what no doubt will lead people to watch this. But you will be disappointed if you want to see something up to the level of these stars.

Tony Clifton was Andy Kaufman's alter ego. Nickolas Cage's character is a direct copy of Tony Clifton. The show is worth a look just to see Cage ham it up as a Tony Clifton clone.

How many movies would be a hit if you took Cage out of it well this is not one of them. This is just a okay movie with and okay script a good movie to watch if bored but not one i would go out of the way to watch. Cage plays a corny and I mean corny gangster. I just can't believe it was written that way if it was don't expect much from this writer in the future.

Not sure why people are hating on this,cuz its a typical action movie that came straight to video, that means it targets an audience of viewers such as myself that ....srry I'm still laughing at Cages who get up,lol anyway stop hating if u don't like cheesy action movies with aging actors and basically every story of crime drama ever made then why would you even start watching it!! Piece of advice for the people rating this 1 or 2.....do some research b4 u decide to watch movies like this if u are gonna act like u are in the freaking academy!!

In a lot of movies that Nicholas Cage is starring in lately, the other supporting actors are terrible and Cage does perform well. But this time around the supporting actors are quite good and Nicholas Cage is rubbish.

You gotta see Nicholas Cage play this absolutely silly role with his completely silly accent and even sillier looking hairdo AND moustache. Absolutely hilarious, BUT his character is meant to be taken seriously. Oh man.

Absolutely the worst performance by Nicholas Cage EVER. He should STOP experimenting so much with these silly looks and weird accents, it is just laughable.

Not any good? It's not a B-movie, because it has got a decent direction and good looking photography. That's a plus. There is a lot of gross violence, (which I didnt like), but some others might not mind that?

Loved the 70s vibe, and the cinematography in some places was jawdroppingly amazing! I thought it was extremely entertaining. Also, a heart-warming tale of the love between two brothers. Not sure why so many didn't like it, but maybe because I was raised in the 60s & 70s it's more my kind of movie, although I enjoy movies from all eras. I would recommend it, but apparently it isn't for everybody.

Rivers of Blood Flowing in the Slowest of Motion Resulting in a High-Def Deluge of Jaw-Dropping, Gonzo, Grind-House Movie-Making.

Unrestrained Ultra-Nuttiness from Nicolas Cage, Dressing and Made-Up like a Clown and giving a Freak-a-Zoid On-Screen "Performance" that cannot be Ignored.

John Cusack, in one of His Patented Baseball Cap, Vape-Pipe Outings. It's all Whispering and Dreamlike, Detached from the Proceedings afraid to "Dip-a-Toe" for Fear of an Infectious Cesspool.

The Two Brothers that the Story Wanders Around are Adrian Grenier and Johnathon Schaech. They Barely Register and are as White-Bread and Generic as Cage and Cusack are Wacky-Packs.

The Allure in "Arsenal" is the Carnival Visuals and the Study of Bloody Body Parts, Crunching Bones, and Side-Show Antics.

Worth a Watch for its Excesses and Peep-Show Salaciousness. All Involved seem to be Proud of its Pandering.

"Arsenal" is what one would call a straight to DVD B film with two big-name actors (Cage and Cusack) and a semi-know actor (Adrian Grenier) that has a potentially good but overdone story on paper that is poorly executed.

The theme of brotherly love is a topic certainly ventured many a time before. Most recently in "The Sisters Brothers", executed to great effect. "Arsenal", on the hand, is poorly named and brings nothing new or meaningful to its genre. Even if it's meant to be a mindless jaunt into some kooky action or semi-feel good as a cheap revenge flick, it falls flat in the face of reusing so many overdone gimmicks and not enough urgency or heart or consistency in the actions of all the characters--with the exception of Eddie King, reprised by Nic Cage. And yes, reprised, as I discovered from the trivia and also from his character's uncanny looks that he has brought back King from the early 90s flick "Deadfall". The call back to the character is in fact one of the most Cagiest things ever, as anyone who has seen "Deadfall" can attest to.

Many reviews are throwing this Cage performance in the dust bin, calling it a raging dumpster fire, but once again there's something there that redeems it and I'm not exactly sure if I can articulate it. The wig and prothetic nose are absurd, but even in this pile of uninspiring bull of a film, he feels like a low level coke-head out of touch with modern styles and into gold chains and gaudy sunglasses. He carries the film, unlike Cusack who is literally aspiring to just be an extra these days in as many movies as possible. The dude coasts the entire film with a toothpick and bandana on his head. It is most certainly hilarious, and the funniest thing he's done in years.

As is the case in most Cage films, it's hard to pin the overall performance as actually bad or absolutely brilliant, and holy moly, does Cage ride that line like it's his job. There is some interesting moments of slo-mo usage married with some over-the-top gore. Not sure if it really brings anything to the table but from a production stand point it was the best effort to write home about.

I didn't expect much and I didn't get much. Having Nicolas Cage and John Cusack in it didn't make the movie any better to me. Maybe I've watched too many action movies but still there is something lacking in it.