Arsenal
After the deadbeat brother of a businessman is assumed to be in on his own kidnapping, his sibling must take action to rescue him.
Critics Sentiment
Eddie King meets Mikey in the club to stage kidnapping
Eddie's henchmen kidnap Mikey's daughter Alexis for leverage
The film drops significantly when Eddie kidnaps Mikey's daughter, pushing the violence into territory critics found desperately unpleasant rather than thrilling.
Arsenal received consistently poor reviews from critics who found it a generic, poorly executed crime drama elevated only occasionally by Nicolas Cage's divisive over-the-top performance as Eddie King. The film starts with familiar brotherly crime setup that reviewers found boring, peaks with Cage's introduction which critics either loved or hated, then descends into gratuitous violence that many found unintentionally comedic. Most critics agreed the film wasted its cast on a derivative script with poor execution.
Full cast
Nicolas Cage
Eddie King
John Cusack
Sal
Adrian Grenier
JP
Johnathon Schaech
Mikey
Lydia Hull
Lizzie
William Mark McCullough
Luca
Abbie Gayle
Alexis
Kelton DuMont
Young JP
Zachary Legendre
Young Mikey
Megan Leonard
Vicki
Shea Buckner
Rusty
Dylan DePaula
Young Mikey's Friend
C.J. LeBlanc
Hoya
Christopher Coppola
Buddy
Christopher Rob Bowen
Rob
Tyler Jon Olson
Gus
Robert Harvey
Eddie's Bodyguard
Catherine Ashton
Black Bear Bartender
Heather Johansen
Kristy
Crew
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