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Not the good kind of bonkers. TWITTER Nicolas Cage stars in Sion Sono s samurai-Western rescue story set in a post-nuclear wasteland. Three years ago, Sundance booked Panos Cosmatos Mandy, a hyperviolent, singularly weird film that ranks among the most worthwhile products of Nicolas Cage s anything-for-a-paycheck period. Cult-movie lightning doesn t strike twice with Prisoners of the Ghostland, a Cage-starring (mostly) English-language effort by prolific Japanese director Sion Sono. A mashup of idioms that sends Cage into a kind of netherworld to rescue (read: re-kidnap) a young woman for a petty tyrant, it alternates between too simplistic and incomprehensible, spending much of its time in between those poles in the I understand, but I don t care zone. Destined to be quickly forgotten, it would need to play a hardcore genre festival to find an appreciative audience of any size. ....