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- Ghosts of Mars received mostly negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 23% based on 111 reviews with the consensus stating "John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars is not one of Carpenter's better movies, filled as it is with bad dialogue, bad acting, confusing flashbacks, and scenes that are more campy than scary."
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Aug 24, 2001 · John Carpenter's "Ghosts of Mars" is a brawny space opera, transplanting the conventions of Western, cop and martial arts films to the Red Planet. As waves of zombified killers attack the heroes, actions scenes become shooting galleries, and darned if in the year 2176 they aren't still hurling sticks of dynamite from moving trains.
Aug 24, 2001 · John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars is not one of Carpenter's better movies, filled as it is with bad dialogue, bad acting, confusing flashbacks, and scenes that are more campy than scary. Read...
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Aug 24, 2001 · Ghosts of Mars: Directed by John Carpenter. With Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Jason Statham, Clea DuVall. In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find that the post has become a charnel house.
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Jun 4, 2021 · His last effort before a protracted hiatus from film-making, 2001’s Ghosts of Mars, is perhaps the best of these overwhelmingly maligned projects – a genre-mashing, thrash metal-infused curio,...
- It constantly spoils its own surprises. Flashbacks are nothing new in movies, and if they’re used carefully, they can be quite effective. The original Invasion Of The Body Snatchers has one, largely to avoid an originally intended bleak ending, but it’s inconspicuous enough that you almost forget that it exists.
- There’s a flashback within a flashback within a flashback. When Ghosts Of Mars begins, Ballard’s found alone on the train, and the rest of the film’s violent events are a flashback, as Ballard recounts her sorry tale to some sort of tribunal.
- Drugs repel demons. Tough lawman though she is, Ballard isn’t entirely squeaky-clean. Around her neck, in a little silver box marked with a Celtic knot, she carries a few unidentified pills, which she pops now and again when she’s feeling a bit low.
- People keep shooting demons even though they shouldn’t. Unless we’re severely mistaken (and it’s possible we are – it’s happened before), there’s a bit of a plot fault in Ghosts Of Mars.
Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 23% based on 111 reviews with the consensus stating "John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars is not one of Carpenter's better movies, filled as it is with bad dialogue, bad acting, confusing flashbacks, and scenes that are more campy than scary."
Oct 31, 2023 · Reasons. – It’s both a “western” and a sort of “greatest hits” homage for John Carpenter made by the man himself: As all John Carpenter nerds know, the director has a major affinity for...
