He also finds two good customers in Africa: The Liberian dictator Baptiste Senior ( Eamonn Walker) and his son Baptiste Junior ( Sammi Rotibi). When they say they're having a war, "they keep their word." He shifts his focus to the Bosnian arena. There is a moment in the film when Yuri gets some bad news: Peace talks have started in a particularly promising market. Yuri asks Simeon to let him team up, an offer Simeon rejects he'll eventually lose a lot of business by that decision. The world's leading arms dealer when Yuri goes into business is Simeon Weisz ( Ian Holm), who prefers not to do business with people he thinks are evil, although his definition of evil is extremely flexible. He has few competitors and a short but frequently updated list of clients. He will sell to anyone, anytime, he tells us during his narration, which confides the secrets of his trade: He never sold to Osama bin Laden, because "he was always bouncing checks." Yuri is played by Nicolas Cage in another of those performances you cannot easily imagine anyone else doing he plays an immigrant from Ukraine who has the cocky self-assurance, the snaky surface charm, the breezy intellectual justification for the most indefensible acts.
"Lord of War" is a bleak comedy, funny in a Catch-22 sort of way, and at the same time an angry outcry against the gun traffic that turns 12-year-olds into killers and cheapens human life to the point where might makes not only right, but everything else. Yuri is an international arms dealer who has "done business with every army but the Salvation Army." He cheerfully tours the world's flashpoints, a war-to-war salesman in a dark suit and tie. There are few pleasures to be had from an AK-47 bullet to the brain, and no time to enjoy them. He has a point, but it's more fun and takes longer to die that way. Yuri Orlov argues that his products kill fewer people than tobacco and alcohol.
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