For any other actor, these moments may all comprise a career-spanning montage of outrageous moments.
For Cage, this is justPrisoners of the Ghostland.
Underneath all the wild posturing andclassic Cage conniptionsis an artsy B-movie about letting go of the past.
Still, in all its budget-friendly ambition,the movie quite often loses track of its own present.
He is dressed in a special jumpsuit for his mission.
Nonetheless,this is what makes the film rare, it is always engaging.
A notorious criminal must break an evil curse in order to rescue an abducted girl who has mysteriously disappeared.
Sono and Cage tag in and out regarding whose iconoclastic sensibility holds the viewer’s attention.
Why do Hero and Yasujiro fight?
Who could say, but they do, and it’scool.
Mizu’s journey of revenge is only just beginning.
It’s also, apparently, frozen in time,though It’s never made clear what this means.
It’s a spectacular, if somewhat unintelligible scene.
Maybe this is because of a flawed script, or an undisciplined editor, or even Sono himself.
Or,maybe this is just the movie refusing to speak our language in favor of its own.
Prisoners of the Ghostlandis available to stream on SHUDDER in the US.
