City of Ghosts

that focuses on what happens when someone from North America who gets caught doing some kind of business scam tries to bounce back in fair Cambodia. Cambodia is depicted in all its shabyness and disarray, as Matt Dillon tries to negotiate... Full review

This had potential to tell about life as an expat. While it nibble at the edge of what it would be like, it missed on the motive to do so. Most of the criminal types are happyly exported when asked for... Full review

This is one of the few sleazy films that I've seen more than once and will continue to watch every couple of years. Perhaps it's just because I love the colors in here and it's a strange movie, a strange... Full review

As a thriller, City of Ghosts doesn't thrill to the slightest. The first hour and a half of the movie is repetative and uneventful, mainly the fat bartender yelling and stoping fights and that monkey stealing sunglasses. With little tidbits of... Full review

i thought this movie was pretty good. i really liked where the movie took place. matt dillon did a really good acting job too. overall i thought i thought the movie was good.... Full review

As a debut for Dillon, this is a remarkable film. The appeal is scriptwriting and the montage of rare characters that only an avid international traveler would appreciate. The soundtrack and images create an adventure uncommonly found in American films. The... Full review

I had high hopes for Dillon's directing debut but alas, my hopes were dashed. The story was scattered and meandering. No matter how good an actor one is, he or she can only do so much with a terrible story that... Full review

This was the second worst movie I have ever seen. The worst was "the stupids" starring Tom Arnold. This was almost as bad, its only that in the stupids they where not trying to be serious.... Full review

If all City of Ghosts was was a travelogue of postwar Cambodia it would be an accomplishment, but it is in its own way a well built film noir in a very unusual, very appropriate setting. Dillon's character goes to... Full review

self-indulgent film in desparate need of editing. a potential A- film is dragged down to D status by failure to make necessary cuts. goes on and on long after it is over. plagued by improbabilities.... Full review

Actor Matt Dillon makes a competent debut as writer and director with this lurid yarn of living dangerously in steamy Cambodiaand posts notice of perhaps better things to come. Dillon himself would hardly have approved of these embarrassing scraps going out with the DVD, which further leave the impression that, on location, he might not always have been completely in control of his senses. ... Full Review

The film features an absolute first-rate ensemble cast, including Dillon, James Caan, Gerard Depardieu, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, and Kem Sereybuth. The film features some fine cinematography that brings out the exotic best of the Cambodian countryside. ... Full Review

It is a far better film than its critical....City of Ghosts," the 2003 dramatic thriller from star, cowriter, and first-time director Matt Dillon was a huge, huge box-office bomb.....I would seem to be among that minority of viewers who enjoyed the movie....The movie fairly oozes with atmosphere, and its cast contains enough colorful characters to make "Casablanca" blush..... ... Full Review

It is a far better film than its critical or box-office reception would indicate. Perhaps "City of Ghosts" qualifies as a neglected or overlooked film, I don't know. City Of Ghosts [Special Edition] ... Full Review

City of Ghosts" gets progressively more ludicrous and more lurid as it goes. So much so, that you almost wonder if the first reel somehow got spliced onto a completely different - completely awful - movie. ... Full Review

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Con man Jimmy Cremmins (Matt Dillon) flees New York following a lucrative insurance scam. In search of his longtime friend and mentor, Marvin (James Caan), Jimmy lands in Bangkok, where he meets up with Kaspar (Stellan Skarsgard), a fellow con... ... Full Article

City of Ghosts, Matt Dillon's directorial debut, is a strangely moralistic romance, premised on his relationship with the setting, Cambodia. As he's repeated in recent interviews, Dillon was inspired to shoot a movie there when he first visited the country... ... Full Article

City of Ghosts, Matt Dillons directorial debut, is a strangely moralistic romance, premised on his relationship with the setting, Cambodia. As hes repeated in recent interviews, Dillon was inspired to shoot a movie there when he first visited the country... ... Full Article

"City of Ghosts" took six years to finally bring to the silver screen, but Matt Dillon's directorial debut was a winner. While it is not the most engaging performance he has made as an actor, you can see that as... ... Full Article

Lest you think all actors are suddenly turning into directors, (as in George Clooney's 2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Dead Again City of Ghosts . And what he's turned in here for his theatrical film debut is a rather... ... Full Article