Prisoners of the Ghostland
In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor, whose adopted granddaughter Bernice 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.
- Released: 2021-08-31
- Runtime: 103 minutes
- Genre: Action, Horror, Thrillers
- Stars: Nicolas Cage, Sofia Boutella, Bill Moseley, Nick Cassavetes, Tak Sakaguchi, Yuzuka Nakaya, Young Dais, Lorena Koto, Canon Nawata, Louis Kurihara, Tetsu Watanabe, Yunho, Charles Glover, Cici Zhou, Takato Yonemoto, Shin Shimizu, Matthew Chozick, Constant Voisin, Maya Carraz, Ilsa Levine, Yurino, Chiho Fujii, Christina Virzi, Riko Shibata
- Director: Sion Sono
Comments
- bsnewsandstories - 6 January 2023
3 stars is generous
This movie tried to be "so random/bad it's funny", an art house film, a Tarantino ripoff, an old timey Samurai flick homage, and probably some other stuff. It failed at doing all of it. It was so disjointed and unaware of what it was trying to do that it just ended up being 5 badly cut movies put into one train wreck. If I'm being honest, I couldn't actually sit through the whole thing because it was so bad. Based off of this and the Five Nights At Freddie's ripoff Nicolas Cage did, it would seem he may be paid per word of dialogue, and the less pay, the less effort. He has lines but the movie was just so boring and uninspired. - Sofiaflickschick - 14 June 2022
I strangely enough enjoyed it and they made it work.
It's all over and can't really decide what it wants to be aka all movies Cages do. I think it's on of those movies you need to watch several times to catch everything. I won't rewatched it anytime soon though but mostly because it's needs time to settle in my head. It weird, silly and but beneath that it's very serious and thought provoking. If you want something easy or b-bad Cage for Friday night, this isn't it. This requires your full attention. I can't really say what exactly it is that doesn't make me want to give a higher score, probably that it is too unexplained by the end of it. Some openings are fine, often the best, but this entire movie is up to interpretation and I do have mine but I can't help but wonder what more exactly the filmmakers intended for us to experience and take with us?
