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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780767864558 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0767864557 Label: Sony Pictures Languages: Manufacturer: Sony Pictures MPN: D06250D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 99 Release Date: December 04, 2001 Running Time: 98 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: 2001 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Ghosts of Mars may not be one of John Carpenter's finer efforts, but you can't knock the veteran director for staying true to his roots--it's clearly a Carpenter film, reveling in its B-movie blood lust, and fueled by the director's rock & roll rebellion as well as the sex appeal of star Natasha Henstridge. This rickety sci-fi/horror hybrid recalls Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13, with various connections from throughout the director's career--for better and worse. It's the year 2176, and human colonists on Mars are controlled by a political "matronage," with women (for reasons unexplained) holding court in the capitol city of Chryse. Mars Police Force Lt. Ballard (Henstridge) has been sent to retrieve James "Desolation" Williams (Ice Cube), the planet's most notorious criminal, from a remote mining-colony prison. With her ill-fated crew, Ballard discovers that the colonists have nearly all been possessed by ancient Martian spirits bent on reclaiming the planet, turning them into an army of self-mutilating freaks suggesting an unholy union of Marilyn Manson and the sadomasochistic Cenobites from the Hellraiser films. None of this makes much sense, and the shaky alliance between cops and criminals is a predictable excuse for rampant battle scenes between surviving humans and the ghost-possessed maniacs. Exotic weaponry abounds (along with cheap special effects and some laughable dialogue), resulting in the gruesome dispatch of expendable costars Pam Grier, Joanna Cassidy, Robert Carradine, and Clea Duvall. Driven by Carpenter's synth-metal score, this violent free-for-all has a few brief highlights, but it's suspenseless and ultimately absurd. It's not much, but for loyal fans it's probably enough. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The worst film from a great director!John Carpenter is a great director. He has a great sense of humor, great timing and has great skills. In fact, he is a great disciple of the classical form: austere, precise and always economic in terms of narrative... in the same tradition of one great master of the past: Howard Hawks. Don't take my word for it. Check the opening sequence of Vampires and compare it with the opening sequence of Hatari!. The similarities are striking and one can clearly see how Carpenter dominates his art. ... Read More Rating: - A Pale imitation of One's Former SelfThis one ranks with MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN as the last in string of stinkeroos from John Carpenter. After some initial success with HALLOWEEN and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, it was (box office wise) downhill. Not all of it fair. PRINCE OF DARKNESS, THEY LIVE, VAMPIRES, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA and IN THE MOUTH OF DARKNESS (one of the better Lovecraft-type films ever made) are actually pretty good. But while others who arrived on the scene in the same time as Carpenter (Spielberg, Lucas, Ron ... Read More Rating: - another zombie undead movie-> on MaqsA variation on the curse of the mummy ( Martian style): from an buried ancient ruin a "disease' emerges that turns people into head hunting , flesh eating zombies. The dust that carries the disease is on the wind turning relatively quiet Martian mining towns into butcher shops. The cops who venture into this zone of terror and horror fight for their lives and make a truce with the criminal who are relatively sane. Virtually no body makes it out alive... a lot of action and ... Read More Rating: - More of a cheesy action film than a science fiction thrillerDespite the basically unexplained absurdity of the whole storyline, Ghosts of Mars is a pretty entertaining film to watch, what with all of the explosions, gun battles, decapitations, and bare-fisted brawls riding the crests of John Carpenter's hard-driving musical score. Sure, it takes a little while to put the characters in place and set the Martian scene for us, but once the gauntlet drops, it's pretty much on. You don't need a lot of character development in an action thriller like this one ... Read More Rating: - Ghost of Mars, ages nicelyWhen I first saw this it was because I am a huge fan of John Carpenter. I was a bit disappointed as it was no "Halloween", "Escape from New York", or "The Thing" remake. It was okay but not great. It revolves around a colony of miners on Mars going berserk after being exposed to an alien cloud. They put much more graphic items in their faces than any punker in Picadilly. The small security force there is severely challenged to stay alive since there are so many miners that have turned and their intent ... Read More |
