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Summary: what is Byrne doing in this movie?
Review: Hum...tired premise, with nothing new! I felt rather "lied to" when I saw actors the caliber of Gabriel Byrne and Julianna Margulies was in the film. I thought wow...maybe this is will be a high class horror film. It has great production values and fine acting, but well, duh, from the time they step onto the ship it was down hill on roller skates. In fact, with some small changes this is a rehash of Death Ship (a sad puppy) made in 1980 with Nick Macusso, Richard Crenna and George Kennedy. Bryne and Crew are salvagers and they run into - literatlly - a missing oceanliner loaded with gold and deadly ghosts. The effects are good, and the thrills solid, but just so nothing new. Buy it used, or catch it on telly, for once is enough.
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Summary: Surprisingly good for a B movie
Review: I was actually surprised at this movie, I wasn't sure what to expect when I rented it but I was pleasantly surprised. The actors are well known and the special effects are really good. A little gory, but well shot. The ending really surprised me, but I liked the journey. This movie is well worth the money if you like a good mystery.
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Summary: OK but nothing to write home about
Review: I wouldn't buy it but it's an ok movie.
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Summary: Surprisingly surpasses its overdone premise
Review: I make it a personal mission to avoid all reviews for movies. The people who are paid to write them are usually very jaded people, who have seen too many movies, so pretty much every movie is ruined for them. Anyway, I'm glad that I'm like this because if I wasn't, I would have avoided this movie like the plague. I agree that the movie offers nothing new to the haunted _____ (fill in the blank) genre, but it definitely was worth the ticket price. Not only was the acting beyond all ghost stories (due to its spectacular actors), but the visuals and soundtrack intensify your viewing pleasure. It's not so much of a "scary movie" but more of a mystery or gore movie. If you're into movies that have a lot of gore and blood, this is your movie. You can instantly tell this when the story begins. A hand pulls a lever causing a rope to slice dancing couples in half. Brutal, sharp, painful, and most of all, quick. The scene then goes onto the main characters (Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Desmond Harrington, Ron Eldard, Isaiah Washington, Karl Urban, Alex Dimitriades). They are approached by Jack Ferriman (Desmond Harrington) who recruits them to help him investigate a mysterious vessel he found off the coast of Alaska. Once the crew is on the ship, they start sensing that there is something wrong afoot. But since they're in international waters, proclaiming the ship theirs, their love for money keeps them searching through the ship to uncover its mysteries. Do they all die in equally horrible and brutal fashions as the ship's long deceased passengers? I know, but no way am I telling you. Go watch it.
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Summary: It is hardly scary.....
Review: B-Movie haunted house on the high seas picture with a script recycled from Alien and art direction that came from someone who must have worked for Roger Corman, Turns into big mess with a sad ending that makes no sense. Neither did the rest of the movie.
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Summary: Glad I Bought the DVD
Review: I didn't see "Ghost Ship" in the movie theater; the first time I watched it was at 5:00 AM before I went to work. I watched it completely through and almost was late; I was so intrigued I bought the DVD on the way home. I am a fan of the supernatural, as well as history: movies, TV shows, miniseries, books.....and I wasn't disappointed. The special features made the DVD worth buying (and it confirmed my supsicion that the boat was patterned after the doomed Andrea Doria), as were some of the principal actors. The sets were stunning, and the effect gruesome, though at times a bit over the top. The plot is sometimes predictable, but I liked the villain who manipulates the crew by using their main character flaws against them: greed, lust, and guilt. This movie isn't for everyone; if you're looking for completely orginal work (I will defer to my fellow reviewers since I never saw Event Horizon) or chainsaw-wielding maniacs, this is definitely not your movie. However, if you're looking for an atmospheric thriller, get ready to board "Ghost Ship".
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Summary: Highly unrecommendable "coullda been"...
Review: By now, anyone with even a passing interest in thrillers-horror films knows he/she HAS to see the opening sequence of "Ghost ship". Too bad there isnt a special DVD release containing ONLY that sequence because the rest of this flick is extremely forgettable.
"Ghost ship" has a great setting (..alarmingly haunted and abandoned ship) and it could have been overall great had that premise been used adequately in better hands: notably, a scriptwriter and a director. But instead it sinks before it ever leaves the harbor.
The attempted story goes very summarily like this: an abandoned cruiser re-appears about 40 years and a crew of salvagers set off to retrieve the gold rumoured to be on it only to discover that the ship holds a deadly and haunting secret within it.
Like i said above, this all sounds well and good if not very promising but only on paper. Because, what goes on on the screen is a grand cinematic failure.
Aside of the opening scene where the entirety of the passengers are slashed into oblivion with one big swift cut, "Ghost ship" is ridden with bad acting, cheap thrills and even cheaper scares which might scare a teenager at best, and a story so full of holes it would make swiss cheese look terribly compact.
The biggest mystery in this film is why an actor of the caliber of Gabriel Byrne agreed to play in this disaster.
Buy the film poster but avoid the film at all costs.
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Summary: Ghost Ship? Hardly
Review: This movie was not at all scary ! Never at one point was I scared, but for some reason, I thought it was okay. Definately not the best, but not the worst either. The main thing that I really like is the beggining, even though it was kind of gory. And I liked the part where they show what happens in the past, becuase they do it very well, especailly when they have the flashes, I love when movies have that!
But, if you're the type who doesn't like movies without an ounce of scare in them, don't waste your money, unless a friend invites you to watch it or something, but if you think a movie doesn't have to be all scary to be good, then I say see it for yourself, and let you be the judge.
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Summary: a stinker
Review: This thing could have been awsome,but it bites the big one instead.All those people who were killed on the ship and all we get are a handfull of spooks.no action,no scares,and red paint for blood.The cast is really good,but the movie feels watered down for idiots and stoned teens.
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Summary: The Ghost Ship.. Soon Will(Not)be Making Another Run...
Review: The very first sequence in GHOSTSHIP is one of the most gruesome scenes in recent memory. (Director Steve Beck previously used similar gruesome scenes in his remake of THIRTEEN GHOSTS.) This is a high concept (yet poor in execution) film taking the haunted house premise to an ocean liner. Yet this is still not anything new and the film manages a little originality in its plot with a couple of decent twists and surprises. The story focuses on a salvage team on board the 'Arctic Warrior' They are approached by a pilot from the Canadian Air Force who claims he has spotted a ship adrift in Alaskan waters. They set out to find the ship. Julianna Margulies of tv's ER is cast almost in the same vain as Sigourney Weaver's character (Ripley) in ALIEN and Gabriel Byrne as Captain Murphy somehow ends up as a support character once the story shifts to the the haunted oceanliner; 'The Antonia Graza'. Then the story and frights shifts to predictability as each cast member gets picked off one by one by the strange disturbances of the haunted ship and the audience is subjected to a few more gruesome scenes brought on by ghosts. The production values, sets, and casting ,are first rate. However, the script is weak and all the characters are generic.
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