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Summary: More ho-hum Carpenter.
Review: I've been a fan of JC's work for a long time. But he's gotten into a rut for a long time now, churning out forgettable movies that offer nothing but recycled plots. Generally his movies are worth a rental and a watch, and Ghosts of Mars follows this new tradition.John hasn't done anything truly creepy since Prince of Darkness. At least he's gotten off his soapbox and knocked-off the politically motivated "They Live". But I guess I'll continue to watch his efforts even if he's apparently never going to do anything to equal "Dark Star" or "The Thing". Rent it, watch it, take it back and forget it.
Rating: 
Summary: Pure Garbage
Review: I rented this movie thinking "It can't be all that bad, Ebert & Roeper gave it two thumbs up." I will never make that mistake again. This was one of the worst movies I have ever seen - the kind of movie I would expect an adolescent boy to write, even worse than Starship Troopers (although if you liked that, you'd probably love this one). The dialog stunk, the acting was horrible, there wasn't one redeeming quality. It will definitely gain a spot on my all-time worst movie list.
Rating:
Summary: Been Done Better Before
Review: This movie, although filled with promise, fails to deliver an all fronts. Even the soundtrack which was written by John Carpenter and features metal luminaries Buckethead and Anthrax fails to inspire. Should the film and soundtrack have lived up to their potential, the movie would have been a genre founder. As it stands, it seems more like a training ground for recent FX and make-up film school graduates. Usually when films fail on the content, they make up for it with action, effects, or sex, and in this film, for all three, they're not good enough or non-existant.
Rating: 
Summary: not-a-blockbuster-movie & SOLID JOHN CARPENTER MOVIE
Review: PICTURE QUALITY (4/5 STARS)
Good overall but some scenes lack sharpness. This is unexcuseable for such a new film, therefor one star is subtracted. SOUND QUALITY (5/5 STARS)
The surround effects are great! Dolby Digital 5.1 mix only; any idea why there is no DTS track? EXTRAS (2/5 STARS)
Hmmm... the commentary is good but where are the extras?? A trailer and some biographies are included though. SPECIAL/UNIQUE ON THIS DVD RELEASE:
- anamorphic Widescreen
- Dolby Digital 5.1 COMMENT:
Like Vampires I thought this movie is average at the most when I saw it for the first time. But after some time I watched it again and I began to like it. The actors are acting very good, except NATASHA HENSTRIDGE - she is a rookie and stikes it bad!
I really think the first impression is not so important. Watch movies a second time and consider your thoughts again! This counts for music as well. Ghosts of Mars wasn't that bad, was it? There are far more gruesome movies today than a SOLID JOHN CARPENTER! And to be on top of the box office doesn't mean anything! Enjoy Carpenter's latest contribution in some of the last better movies made today.
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Summary: Ghosts or Garbage?
Review: If you have missed all of John Carpenter's sci-fi horror films so far, here is your opportunity to miss another one!
Rating:
Summary: Not good
Review: John Carpenter has given us some great films, Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing, Escape from New York to name a few. Directed with style and flair they were never going to be film classics, but they were very entertaining films. But it has been a long time since we had a half decent film out of him...
I had read the reviews but I liked the idea of a Mars take on Assault on Precinct 13 so I was happy to give this a chance.
Somewhere in this is a good idea and a good movie but in the delivery it fails and there really is very little on the positive side. The Carpenter magic still seems to be absent and he has delivered a third rate SCI-FI slash film that deserves the bad reviews it has been getting.
Sorry John, I really did want to like it.
Rating:
Summary: It's a bad movie, we know that
Review: Ghosts of Mars is a bad movie.It's in the horror genre and there are no positive aspects.
I'm going to be real short in this review, 'cause I hate to write a review about a movie I hated. A group of stupid people suddnely gets posessed by this ghosts of Mars in a bloody and moder space prision.
Natasha Henstridge and Ice Cube are the lead chacracters, they'll have to gifht this army of warriors that looked like Marilyn Manson(He should have killed them for doing that to him...I would). The rest of the cast includes the great Pam Grier, totally wasted.Just like Clea Duvall(The Faculty) she must have luckily, one line of dialogue.
I don't uderstand how a movie can be "that" bad, you just knew how it was going to end from the beginning.
And it was made with two dollars. Ghosts of Mars, it's not the worts movie of John Carpenter(I hing I give that tittle to Vampires 2: Los Muertos) but defenitly is not the best. GHOSTS OF MARS
(U.S.A./100
minutes/Rated R/2001) With Ice Cube
and Natasha Henstridge FINAL GRADE: D-(4)
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Summary: Actors Adrift in A Sea of Violent Blood Red....
Review: ...I think they had to off Pam early, 'cause Cassady does the tough broad thing well, too. It, however, would have been interesting to see the two tangle in the film. To me this has many cul de sacs, like how come Ice Cube was able to fight off these parasitic spirits when everyone around him were submitting, (Is he one? Is he the leader of the pack?) why any being would want Mars back, and how in the heck did the writers missed that Hentridge, the last of the crew to come back to tell of these ghosts, was also attacked and nearly taken over by these ghosts...she could have turned back into one of 'them' to attack the tribunal and thus giving credence to the fasntastic notion of the ghosts wanting Mars back...but, nooooooo! (Wait a minnit! She kicked the butts of half these ghosts/vampiric spirits, but couldn't get herself free from a handcuff? I dunno-oh!) This moovy could have done without the decapitations and beefed up the suspense more and tightened up the plot. The actors looked as if they had that 'what's next' look on their faces like Carpenter was writing the story on the cuff, as it were. It works for doing some moovys, but here I feel the actors were not connecting well...it attempts to be a combination "Alien" and Carpenter's rendition of "The Thing", but falls off the mark a bit.
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Summary: Mr. Carpenters worst yet!
Review: It really hurts me to write this review, since there is no way that i can say anything positive about this movie. I have been a fan of John Carpenter ever since Halloween, and didnt think i would ever watch a bad movie made by him, but here it is. The story is thin, the actors awful and the directorial job nonexistent. This is not a "fun" b-movie like Prince of darkness or Village of the damned, just a plain bad movie.
I will give it two stars: One for the movie, and one for old friendships sake. Better luck next time Mr Carpenter!
Rating:
Summary: Amazing...ly Awful
Review: How does John Carpenter manage to find studio backing for these projects? He is truly the master of the underdeveloped concept. I have long hoped that in the current remake-happy movie market someone would latch onto "They Live" or "Prince of Darkness" and turn them into well-realized films. One might add "Ghosts of Mars" to this group, but it's simply uninteresting. This is a movie that did not have to be made. The plot lacks internal logic and the only interesting characters, Ice Cube's posse, have precious little time onscreen. Carpenter, like Walter Hill, has lost touch with what makes a film worth viewing and target a demographic of 14-year-olds with low expectations (I watched this with my 15-year-old who was similarly stunned by the unwatchability of this train wreck -- and he'll sit through anything).
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