Golden Gate is about Matt Damon’s guilt over what he did to Tzi Ma which leads him to Ma’s daughter Joan Chen. Most of the movie was filmed in location in San Francisco Chinatown and it was written by playwright David Henry Hwang. One of the main drawbacks is that Dillon consistently overacts his part. He also has a girlfriend who just gives political diatribes almost every time she opens her mouth. Added to that there are some really bad lines. Those all become real distractions. On the positive side they include the Asian American movement from the 1960s which was fun to see people talking about sticking it to the man and Asian stereotypes. Still the bad outweighed the good in the end.

If you could cut about 30 minutes of all the F**** bombs and and associated a sundry foul cliches - it had a some semblance of watch-ability... BUT still no real substance of entertainment here - just a rehash of hundreds (maybe thousands) of movies of a similar nature (Bad parenting as such...)... Liked the actors - they where just dealt a lousy script to work with... Unless you have time to waste and money to burn (call me first - I have a better option) then this is one flick you will want to opt out of watching (it actually get pretty boring in too many places)... You've been warned...

Maybe you had to have been there to understand how poignant a man with a leather suitcase in a climate of Cambodian jungle heat really is. I think that is what Matt Dillon was trying to do in City of Ghosts, an overly complicated plot but with an honest character trying to figure out how the hell he got to where he is and how the hell can he get out.
It is a brave film and Dillon and his cast are superior. They just do not know how they got there.

I only watched Golden Gate, but I thought it was a pretty good movie!

Great stuff. Anyone who appreciates Chinese & Chinese-American culture will find this very enjoyable. Good characterisations and excellent acting by both protagonists, in my opinion.

NICE COLLECTION OF MATT DILLON FILMS. CITY OF GHOST WAS THE BEST I FELT USING SAN FRANCISCO AS A BACKGROUND AND A FILM THAT COVERED LITTLE MORE THAN A DECADE. EACH OF THE FILMS DEALT WITH TOPICAL THEMES AND GOOD ACTING FOR INDIE FILMS..BRAVO

Deeply moving -- cathartic! All of us a part are some mix of the evil-hero, Special Agent, Walker and the idealistic, tragic hero Mr. Song whom he drove to suicide on and his daughter, who with the help of the finally repentant Waker exposes the wanton cruelty of Walker and Hoover's FBI. Based on true story in NY of the evil that was the witch-hunting '50s.

Intriguing although improbable generational-racial love story about secrets and how they always get you in the end. I liked it.