wow i have not seen this movie in ages but i thought that this movie was really entertaining 2 watch...this has a good cast of actors/actressess throughout the movie...i think that this is a good Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Horror movie 2 watch because you never know what 2 expect throughout the movie, the fight scenes are really kewl, the gun shoot = outs are funn as well...this has got a good cast of characters throughout the movie, its dark as anything the creatures are pretty kewl throughout the movie as well..this is a good thriller movie 2 watch
Frankly, this film lacked in every category. Except possibly actors - they're too good for this film. The biggest error is the film tells you the obvious ending in the beginning, so the viewer can pretty much guess almost everything to occur next. Not worth your time. I just watched the film for Statham, who by the way SPOILER ALERT should NEVER, EVER be killed. We all know he can't be killed. He knows martial arts and kick your ass. How in the hell did these things kill him? Stupid....
Has a few interesting moments, but if you show me a sole survivor at the beginning of a film, then spend the test of the movie telling me what they went through, why on Earth would I care about any character except our survivor?
This was a little out there because the thought of anyone from earth roaming around on Mars and actually having oxygen sounds a little crazy but the storyline was good. 5 stars!!
LOLZORZ. this movie is thirty kinds of retarded wrapped in a burrito. pam grier is a dude. so is that other lady, the one thats not in movies anymore but she was always in those mid 90's angsty teen flicks. and jason statham has hair sort of. i saw this movie when it came out and even then i knew this shit was bad and i was only like 13 and i loved bad movies, i mean, my favorite movie was starship troopers (and fuck you i still love that movie) but god this movie sucks. fuck you john carpenter. your time is over. the 80's are GONE. you are hereby removed from director-dom.
In some respects this movie totally works. But it's somewhat bone-headed in a heavy metal listening, D&D playing, retarded, sort of way. But hey, nothing wrong with that!
While this heavy-metal sci-fi horror B-movie isn't exactly dull, it only gets worse and worse as it runs. Condemned to rot in your local Blockbuster in-between two genre sections.
Despite some good actors, Natasha Henstridge and Jason Statham among others, this movie really sucks. The story just feels ridicilous and I couldn't care less about what happened to the characters. Stupid ending to a stupid movie.
There is SOMETHING to be said for movies that revel in their B-movie status. This isn't the worst movie I've ever seen and the cast is at least decent, but...man, this is stupid stuff.
this is one of those movies your eather....eh i dunno or it sucks...me im in the eh bit i watch and watch and its like "do i like this?" i just...well i just dont fucking know... but hey....its a carpenter movie and KNB did the FX and it dose have a kick ass soundtrack
I love John Carpenter and this is the price I pay. This movie looked terrible, people told me it was terrible, and I watched it, and it was terrible. I still love John Carpenter.
The year is 2176. Mars has been colonized by a troop of martial arts master humans, and they have to take down the ancient force of Martian ghosts threatening to take back their planet by possessing humans using extremely selective methods not completely clear to us. Jason Statham plays a cop unable to speak without hiting on our heroine, whose name and representing actress I forget because shes that bad. Ice Cube plays the stilted and wooden bad ass intent on looking out for himself... by saving the world. Imagine every action movie cliche you've ever thought of and its in here. The bad acting, the dialogue so bad its beyond campy, the fight scenes where every shot is on and every kick is a faux-karate dance move. And lest we forget the plot devices, so plentiful I dare not attempt to metion them here. Every bit of Carpenter's talent has decayed to a level unrecognizable... sloppy cuts, odd time frame jumps; even the music reeks. Ghosts of Mars is flat out the dumbest movie I have seen in years, and by the time the 98th minute of this burdened and failed sci-fi horror rolls around, you'll be wondering if some odd martian ghost had possessed Carpenter on set of the film.
Dear God, what happened to John Carpenter? The man once created genre classics like Escape from New York, The Fog, Halloween. I only heard bad reviews about this and yet wanted to check it out. Now I incidentally saw 10 minutes of the ending and those were pretty bad. Unexciting, badly acted and stupid. Not entirely fair to rate it just for that but I most likely won't ever check it out anymore anyway.
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