The Notorious Mr. Bout 2014 123movies

Watch: The Notorious Mr. Bout 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – When he was arrested in 2008 in Thailand as a result of a U.S. government sting operation, the career of internationally known arms smuggler Viktor Bout came to a decisive end. Veiled by the obscurity of post-Soviet Russia, Bout had built an empire of aerial delivery so vast he was called “the merchant of death” and was even the subject of a Hollywood film. In sharp contrast to the widely known, super-villain persona, however, was another Bout: a philosophical businessman who simply enjoyed travel, his work, his family, and filming it all with his video camera..
Plot: Viktor Bout was a war profiteer, an entrepreneur, an aviation tycoon, an arms dealer, and—strangest of all—a documentary filmmaker. The Notorious Mr. Bout is the ultimate rags-to-riches-to-prison memoir, documented by the last man you’d expect to be holding the camera.
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Schoolboy enthusiast, merchant of death
It’s hard to feel too much sympathy for Viktor Bout, a cargo plane operator who made his fortune by flying planes to places where no-one else wanted to go and for people who no-one else wanted to fly for: his protests that it’s not his responsibility that they put arms in his planes doesn’t really cut much mustard. That it took an entrapment operation to put him in gaol says more about the west’s usual tolerance of arms traders than it does for Bout’s moral innocence. Still, this is an entertaining documentary, in part because Bout recorded just about everything he did on video, so if you want to see what it’s like to start up an airline, fly into the heart of Africa and turn up in the middle of a brutal civil war, the film can actually show you, and Bout seems to be enjoying himself with a kind of schoolboy enthusiasm. And if it just happened there were guns in his plane… well that, says the notorious Mr. Bout, was nothing to do with me.

Intriguing Piece that Nonetheless Seems Uncertain About its Moral Priorities
Jailed for twenty-five years for arms dealing in 2011, Viktor Bout became a media celebrity as the so-called “Merchant of Death,” dealing in arms across the globe and thereby contributing to the continuation of bloody civil wars in the Congo, Angola and Rwanda, amongst others. When finally arrested as a result of a deliberately staged “hit” operation, Bout was agreeing to a deal that could have resulted in American civilians being slaughtered.

Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin’s documentary profiles Bout, an entrepreneur of quite extraordinary aptitude, who built up his business empire in the wake of the liberalization policies introduced by Boris Yeltsin in Russia during the 1990s. Bout’s primary interest, it seems, was in cargo; bringing in hitherto unobtainable commodities into Russia while transporting other goods from place to place. He set up his sphere of operations in Sharjah, where be built up a huge empire. It did not matter what was transported; Bout built his reputation on flying goods expeditiously using his own fleet of airplanes.

As the Nineties progressed, so Bout expanded his operations into some of the trouble-spots of Africa. He had a small airport in the Congo in the midst of civil war operations; and enjoyed good relationships with military leaders all over the continent. The documentary works hard to portray him as a business person interested solely in making money, but it seems that he was largely indifferent to the morality of arms-dealing.

What makes THE NOTORIOUS MR. BOUT most interesting is the amount of home movie footage Bout shot during his business career. Everything, it seemed, was worth filming, from rebuilding his aircraft to the most ordinary domestic scenes such as the birth of his daughter. We get the sense that his real desire was for some form of celebrity; to be remembered for what he did, regardless of why he did it.

In the end Bout achieved his aim as he was deported from Thailand to New York to face a high-profile trial. Through interviews with Bout’s wife Alla, as well as some of his closest business associates, the documentary works hard to suggest that Bout was more sinned against than sinning; there are legions of arms-dealers from all countries who are still at large and making huge profits out of other people’s suffering. Nonetheless we feel that the prison sentence he received was somehow justified, if only as a means to show what would happen to any arms-dealer, whether great or small, should they be brought to justice.

Slickly filmed with the use of voice artists speaking some of Bout’s words, THE NOTORIOUS MR. BOUT is an entertaining piece.

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Genre Documentary
Director Tony Gerber, Maxim Pozdorovkin
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Actors Sergei Bout, Wim Brown, Alla Vladimirovna But
Country Russia, United States
Awards 2 nominations
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