However, when it comes to Lord of War, those weapons were not the result of movie magic. Instead, writer-director Andrew Niccol went ahead and bought a whopping 3000 Kalashnikov automatic rifles.

In the 2005 classic Lord of War, Cage is Ukrainian gun runner Yuri Orlov, a character loosely based on the very real Russian gun runner Viktor Bout. Yes, Viktor saw the movie from his jail cell ...

But the combination of brutal violence, real guns for props and cynical arms dealers don’t add up to the grimy, real-world feel “Lord of War” needs to offset all the one-liners. The gee-whiz ...

Bout, known as "The Merchant of Death," and international arms dealers like him inspired the 2005 film "Lord of War ... Money, Guns, Planes and the Man Who Makes War Possible" alleges that ...