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.
There is so much to admire in Matt Dillon's City of Ghosts that the feeling left over after watching it is an unsettling sense of disappointment and unfairness.
– Michael Booth,
Denver Post,
28 Jun 2003
fresh:
While it won't be remembered as great cinema, it is actually a tight piece of film noir.
– Gary Dowell,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Jun 2003
rotten:
While the film is not short on ideas or implications, none of them is fully developed, leaving us little but atmosphere and warm whiskey to drink in.
– Terry Lawson,
Detroit Free Press,
5 Jun 2003
fresh:
A long, winding, but decently layered modern film noir.
– Kathy Cano Murillo,
Arizona Republic,
29 May 2003
rotten:
Trades more effectively in states of alienated atmospheric delirium than it does the specific mechanics of plot.