MOVIE REVIEW OF ''SERENITY" Ever seen a movie that made no sense? Hollywood goes to extraordinary lengths to make Serenity and its feature films not only palatable, but also coherent for its audiences. After all, they want us to vicariously participate in the plot and enjoy the heroic triumph of good over evil. Occasionally, even an incoherent catastrophe, like “Crank 2: High Voltage” (2009), qualifies as entertaining, especially since the filmmakers refused to take themselves seriously.
Sion Sono and Nicolas Cage Have Fun in Prisoners of the Ghostland
You re either in or out the moment Nicolas Cage s left testicle explodes, and there is no turning back.
Patriot Pictures
Sion Sono starring
Nicolas Cage in a black leather suit set to explode in five days. Yeah, that’s the kind of tease that marks
Prisoners of the Ghostland as a must-see film, but does the actual movie deliver on that promise? Well, that’s a great question, and the answer depends almost entirely on your interest in seeing Cage unleashed even as Sono is restrained.
A young woman named Bernice (
A man wakes up one morning to find himself slowly transforming into a living hybrid of meat and scrap metal; he dreams of being sodomised by a woman with a snakelike, strap-on phallus. Clandestine experiments of sensory depravation and mental torture unleash psychic powers in test subjects, prompting them to explode into showers of black pus or tear the flesh off each other s bodies in a sexual frenzy. Meanwhile, a hysterical cyborg sex-slave runs amok through busy streets whilst electrically charged demi-gods battle for supremacy on the rooftops above. This is cyberpunk, Japanese style: a brief filmmaking movement that erupted from the Japanese underground to garner international attention in the late 1980s.