City of Ghosts
2002
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
City of Ghosts
2002
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Plot summary
A con man who is on the run from law enforcement in the U.S. travels to Cambodia to collect his share in an insurance scam but discovers more than he bargained for.
Director
Top cast
Natascha McElhone as Sophie
Rose Byrne as Sabrina
Stellan Skarsgård as Joseph Kaspar
James Caan as Marvin
Tech specs
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU 720p.WEB 1080p.WEB 1.05 GB
1280*694
English 2.0
R








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An interesting film, worth a look Set in Cambodia a generation after a bloody revolution and civil war, this film follows the adventures of a smalltime crook, Jimmy, who is tracking down an older man responsible for an insurance scam and who has absconded with the money. He arrives in a country full of gangsters and opportunist thieves - not knowing who to trust, he is robbed and beaten up as often as any hero of a film noir movie. Modern Cambodia is depicted as a hell on Earth - with the exception of a rickshaw driver, Suk, the locals are shown as violent and untrustworthy. Once again a foreign locale is simply a backdrop for white villains to have a shootout. But this doesn't detract too much from a film that is in many ways a homage to "The Third Man", with Phnom Penh standing in for a ruined postwar Vienna, the Harry Lime-equivalent seedy and enigmatic, and the protagonist equally unsympathetic at first. Odd camera angles and flashback shots abound. The love interest seems tacked on - and a reason for having a female character - but gives Jimmy an incentive to abandon his life of crime and go straight. An interesting film, worth a look.