本来美国移民尤瑞(尼古拉斯•凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰)的家族生意是开饭馆。但是一个偶然的机会令他踏入了军火生意的大门,从此开始了贩卖武器的“职业生涯”。尤瑞遇事机智,胆大心细,这不仅让他成功俘获了美女埃娃的心,还使得他在地下军火生意中愈战愈勇。但是,不顺心的事情也随之而来:出现了生意上的死对头和一名老是盯着他的国际警察;弟弟染上毒瘾,并在一单生意交易中丧了命,而且,尽管他在竭力维护自己在家庭里的正义形象,但却掩盖不了真相。
It couldn't have hit me harder if I was the one who'd been shot.
You go into the restaurant business... because people are always going to have to eat.
That was the day I realized my destiny lay in fulfilling another basic human need.
The next Sabbath, I went to temple with my father.
However, it wasn't God I was trying to get close to.
Eli, my eldest son, Yuri.
My contact at synagogue landed me my first Israeli-made Uzi submachine guns.
The first time you sell a gun... is a lot like the first time you have sex.
You have absolutely no idea what you're doing.
But it is exciting and one way or another, it's over way too fast.