Prisoners of the Ghostland
Prisoners of the Ghostland
Rendező:
Shion SonoOperatőr:
Sōhei TanikawaZeneszerző:
Joseph TrapaneseSzereplők:
Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Bill Moseley, Nick Cassavetes, Tak Sakaguchi, Teresa Ruiz, Matthew Chozick, Charles Glover, Riko ShibataTartalmak(1)
In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber (Nicolas Cage) is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor (Bill Moseley), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (Sofia Boutella) has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway. Strapped into a leather suit that will self-destruct within five days, the bandit sets off on a journey to find the young woman - and his own path to redemption. (Mongrel Media)
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I had high hopes for Sion Sono’s new movie; after all, he is an experienced director with a distinctive signature. The actors who also willingly bought into his vision (besides the courageous Nicolas Cage and the popular Sofia Boutella, there is also the actor and director Nick Cassavetes, who returns here after a ten-year hiatus from acting) probably told themselves the same. However, Prisoners of the Ghostland is not a well-directed movie, and in fact, comes across as lacking any director or direction at all. Also, as much as I appreciate the elaborate sets, the imaginative costumes, and the use of practical effects, when I mentally strip this movie of all the exquisite visuals, all I am left with is a cheesy and in every way moronic screenplay that gives the actors very little material to work with. If this screenplay, with the same cast of leads, had been made by, say, Rob Zombie in a redneck backwater somewhere in New Mexico, I can imagine it might have worked better under his direction. However, it just does not work like this. The whole thing is just an exercise in shooting bizarre ideas into the air and waiting to see if any of them land on fertile ground, however, eighty-five percent of them do not land, and so all one gets is an incredibly sparse, insignificant almost, viewing experience.
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