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You forget about Nicholas Cage, and only see Yuri Orlov in this movie. He did a very good job portraying the main character as a realistic gunrunner, and not some kind hero or antihero. In this movie, there are no good guys and bad guys, only the reality of war, politics, and business (capitalism in a nutshell). The ending is shocking but also realistic, this is a movie that really makes you think.

This movie isn't for everybody, but if you have the patience for a thought provoking film, I strongly recommend this movie. I gave it a ten because of the overall acting, story telling, pictures, and flow of the movie. And of course, the ending really knocked me off my feet.

Enjoy.

I just finished watching this movie, and man was I impressed. It's better if you don't know the history here, because then it doesn't spoil the surprises. The movie started out slow (as do most movies based on true stories), but started to get good about 15 minutes into it. This was a great action film for it's time. The Muslim world needs more leaders like Omar Mukhtar.

Anthony Quinn is truly one of the greatest actors I've seen. He never lets his role veil the story. I found that he made this movie better than Braveheart, which was also a good movie, but had too much over-acting and exaggerations. Oliver Reed was also good, I wish they did more movies together. Credit to Mustapha Akkad as well, he needs to stop wasting his time with the Halloween movies, and make some more war movies, that's what he's good at.

The only problem with this film is the terrible audio, so you have to constantly play with the volume whenever it switches between fighting scenes and conversations. So keep the remote close by and enjoy!