Runtime: 98 minutes
Rating: R
Release Date: August 24, 2001
Director: John Carpenter
Melanie Ballard (Natasha Henstridge,
“Species”) leads a group of soldiers to an outpost in the middle
of nowhere to bring back a prison inmate. Among her group is the
unusually quiet Bashira (Clea Duvall, “The Faculty”) and the sexy
Jericho (Jason Statham). Unfortunately, they discover that everyone
is missing. The few people they can find are the prisoner (Ice Cube)
and his group of followers who hoped to help him escape.
It doesn't take long before they
discover that those who were left when something happened killed
themselves in gruesome ways. They find that the workers released a
group of unhappy spirits who immediately possessed those around them.
Every time they kill someone possessed, the ghosts just find another
body, making escape and survival nearly impossible.
“Ghosts of Mars” is easily one of
the worst films that Carpenter ever did. I bought this movie when it
first came out, watched it once, and sold it a few days later. I
never had any desire to see it again, but I stumbled on it when
checking out Netflix one day and decided to give it another chance. I
wish I had just kept going.
The only good thing about this movie is
Jason Statham. This was still early in his career, but he still comes
across as the perfect bad ass. No matter how much I might like him or
the size of my crush, there are at least ten other movies from him
that I would put in before sitting down to this one again.
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