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Critics Consensus: Atmospheric, but that's about it.
Critic Consensus: Atmospheric, but that's about it.
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There is so much to admire in Matt Dillon's City of Ghosts that the feeling left over after watching it is an unsettling sense of disappointment and unfairness.
While it won't be remembered as great cinema, it is actually a tight piece of film noir.
While the film is not short on ideas or implications, none of them is fully developed, leaving us little but atmosphere and warm whiskey to drink in.
A long, winding, but decently layered modern film noir.
Trades more effectively in states of alienated atmospheric delirium than it does the specific mechanics of plot.
Dillon doesn't quite pull it off, but you've got to admire the guy's chutzpah.
can be criticised of many things, but wasting locations and local talent is not one of them
The surprise is not necessarily that Dillon has a unique voice, but rather that the voice is so bizarrely dark and uninhibitedly exotic.
Shows some promise in that it wants to say something, but there are plenty of forgettable moments to go along with it.
There's nothing interesting about this half-baked noir plot...
The movie fairly oozes with atmosphere, and its cast contains enough colorful characters to make Casablanca blush.
Matt Dillon is a hero worried about his karma
Matt Dillion starred in and directed this atmospheric and interesting noir piece. It has many good moments, seemingly promising more than it ultimately delivers. The biggest drawback is it's meandering nature, never quite hitting the notes it wants to. A multitude to plots are served up, but never satisfactorily seen through. Still, I really enjoyed the film's sense of place, captured through some great cinematography.
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There were some good elements to this film ? yet it didn?t quite work for me. Enjoyed Matt Dillan (and of course he Directed this film also), loved the not so typical choice of using Cambodia as the backdrop to the story and really enjoyed the music too. Pretty natural performances all around. For me the downfall lay not in the actual plot, but in the actual story of corruption ? I felt it was weak, confusing and slow moving at times, it was more of a working progress.
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