
Rating: 6 stars
Seen 1 time
Seen on: 04/04/2012
Action | Horror | Science Fiction
Most recently watched by sleestakk, sensoria
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 the post deserted and something far more dangerous than any criminal — the original inhabitants of Mars, hellbent on getting their planet back.
Rated R | Length 98 minutes
Joanna Cassidy | Jason Statham | Pam Grier | Christopher Allen Nelson | Peter Jason | Rodney A. Grant | Ice Cube | Richard Cetrone | Rex Linn | Clea DuVall | Lobo Sebastian | Rosemary Forsyth | Natasha Henstridge | Wanda De Jesus | Liam Waite | Duane Davis | Doug McGrath | Rick Edelstein | Michael Krawic | Robert Carradine | Eileen Weisinger | Charlotte Cornwell | Danielle Burgio | Marjean Holden | Matt Nolan | Damon Caro | Lena Milan
I’ve been slowly filling the holes in my John Carpenter watching. Since I’d just added Amazon’s streaming video service to my PS3 and this was in their list of free movies, I decided to tackle it.
Ghosts of Mars is not a good movie, however, I didn’t end up hating it as much as I wanted to. It’s an odd mix of ideas, somewhat reminiscent of Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 at times, and They Live! at other times, with a tepid dose of 1980s-era post-apocalyptic genre thrown in to boot.
It was weird seeing Jason Statham in this; he was out of place and the movie didn’t really make good use of his fighting skills. Ice Cube is laughable and completely typecast as a criminal grudgingly turned hero opposite a still gorgeous but mostly wooden Natasha Henstridge.
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