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This is the one where Nicolas Cages testicle gets blown off halfway through.
Its also the one where he finds himself wading through spike-suited scavengers and jigsaw-mannequin-faced zombies in a postatomic landscape.
And the Ghostland isnt some kind of vast, empty desert.
The whole movie, one could say, is about time.
Hero himself discovers that he might have been originally responsible for Bernices enslavement by the Governor.
Is it a taunt?
Could it be both?
Was any of this worth a testicle?
With Cages screen presence to carry us through the story, chaos becomes a virtue.
His astonishing turns in such idiosyncratic wonders asMandy,Mom and Dad, andPighave also helped.
InPrisoners of the Ghostland, he gets to inhabit a rugged, haunted, macho protagonist.
), is also the rare performer who can be poignant while indulging in pastiche.
And what else are heroes for?
