Ghosts of Mars

I actually liked this movie. It is just simple ridiculous fun. Not too much to think about or analyze but still enjoyable if you don't go into it with any expectations. As many other reviewers point out, the plot, script, acting and effects are lack luster at best, but if you know that is what they were shooting for, then you can really find a couple hours entertainment. The only disappointing part were the "ghosts" because they didn't look very alien. I guess I shouldn't have had any expectations about that though...

This movie fails on almost all levels. I'm not usually critical of bad acting, but some of the acting in this film is so wooden it pulls you out of the movie. Really awful. Then there's the lame story-line, which is told in flashback. If you've ever seen the pilot for the original Star Trek you've got the idea--except the story isn't nearly as interesting. A panel is listening to a woman discuss the reason she was found handcuffed to a bunk on a train with nobody else aboard. Now, there's been an atomic explosion at a power plant on Mars, so you'd think these officials would be a teensy-weensy bit concerned about the boom-boom stuff and all the dead people in the affected city, but not these morons. Nope. They want to get to the bottom of that empty train, and they don't even mention the blast or seem aware that there was one. The bad guys are right out of Twin Peaks, ghosts that go from one "host" to another and turn them into evil killers. In this case, though, the ghosts a... Read more

Complete crap, certainly not worth more than the 99 cents I paid, poor dialogue and special effects, I love John Carpenter, what happened?

John Carpenter borrows the basic plot from his classic films Assault on Precinct 13 and The Thing and switches the setting to Mars. An ancient spirit has escaped from the mines and everyone who comes in contact with it becomes possessed. A recon unit consisting of Ballard (Natasha Henstridge), Jericho (Jason Statham), Helena (Pam Grier), and a few rookies think they are just going to pick up a prisoner named Desolation (Ice Cube) and transport him to another jail. They have no idea that they are going to have to defend themselves against the alien undead and three psychopaths who are trying to bust Jericho out. Finding themselves outnumbered by Big Daddy Mars (the head of the undead) and his minions they are forced to deputize the other prisoners and rely on them to help fend off the ambushing undead. Where to begin with what doesn't work about this film? The writing is terrible, the use of miniatures is obvious, the main monster isn't frightening and mainly just stands there baring hi... Read more

Even though it was a bit cheesey actor all groaning and moaning as if they were possessed... Ok, but it had action... and Ice Cube was meant to be an actor him and LL Cool J are really cool...and this movie made you kind of clinch you fists hoping the normal people would make it out alive... it was good I'd like to see a part two... worth the money to buy...