John Travolta and Bruce Willis headline Paradise City, a 2022 crime drama built around three lives converging on a single, explosive plot in New York.
What is Paradise City about?
A young police officer carrying a troubled personal record, a former convict who has turned toward a devout religious path, and a wealthy young man struggling with addiction all get pulled into the same conspiracy, one aimed at justifying a sweeping counter-terrorism operation against homegrown targets. The film moves between their separate worlds before drawing them together, using the officer's checkered past as the entry point into a plot that questions who benefits when public fear gets manufactured for a cause. Travolta and Willis anchor the surrounding cast as figures with their own stakes in how the operation plays out, while the three younger leads carry most of the plot's forward motion. It runs just under an hour and a half, structured as a lean thriller rather than a sprawling ensemble piece.
About the cast
Travolta and Willis bring name recognition to a supporting frame around Blake Jenner, Praya Lundberg and Stephen Dorff, who carry the bulk of the story's screen time as the three central figures pulled into the conspiracy. Corey Large and Branscombe Richmond round out a cast built for a mid-budget action-drama, with the two veteran leads used more as gravitational anchors than as the film's central engine.
Context & significance
Paradise City arrived in 2022 as part of a wave of American crime thrillers set against post-9/11 counter-terrorism themes, a genre that has produced dozens of similarly plotted films over the past two decades. Director Chuck Russell, known for genre work across several decades, keeps the pacing tight and the New York setting grounded rather than stylized. Viewers drawn to conspiracy-driven crime dramas or to Travolta and Willis's shared filmography will find this a straightforward entry in that vein, without needing familiarity with any other title to follow it.
Watching Paradise City on Ktime
Paradise City is available on K-Time with a free account login, and no separate purchase is required beyond a paid subscription. A Persian dub is included, so Farsi-speaking viewers can watch the full film without relying on subtitles. The platform's interface is built entirely in Farsi for Persian-speaking households, part of a catalogue designed specifically for the Iranian diaspora rather than translated after launch.