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Ghosts of Mars (Special Edition)

Ice Cube (Actor), Natasha Henstridge (Actor), John Carpenter (Director) Rated:
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Genre Sci-Fi, Horror
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Contributor Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Joanna Cassidy, Pam Grier, Clea Duvall, John Carpenter, Sandy King, Jason Statham, Storm King Productions, Inc. See more
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 38 minutes
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From John Carpenter, the master of horror behind 1998's hit John Carpenter's Vampires and classics like The Thing and Halloween, comes a sci-fi thriller full of explosive action and bone-chilling suspense. Natasha Henstridge (Species) is Melanie Ballard, a headstrong police lieutenant on Mars in the year 2025. Humans have been colonizing and mining on the red planet for some time, but when Ballard and her squad are sent to a remote region to apprehend the dangerous criminal James "Desolation" Williams, played by Ice Cube (Three Kings), they discover that he's the least of their worries. The mining operations have unleashed a deadly army of Martian spirits who take over the bodies of humans and won't stop until they destroy all invaders of their planet. With a stellar cast including Pam Grier (Jackie Brown), Jason Statham (Snatch) and Clea Duvall (The Faculty), as well as explosive special effects, John Carpenter's GHOSTS OF MARS is an intergalactic terror fest like you've never seen.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches; 0.8 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ John Carpenter
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DTS Surround Sound, Dolby, Multiple Formats, Widescreen, Special Edition, NTSC, Color, Subtitled
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 38 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ December 4, 2001
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Pam Grier, Clea Duvall
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Sandy King
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00003CY6P
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 2,562 ratings

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kayita
5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2024
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I will always love this movie a must watch
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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2024
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4.0 out of 5 stars A very Entertaining Science Fiction Film!
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2013
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Ghosts of Mars is an entertaining and original sci-fi flick. I cannot say I have seen something quite like it. John Carpenter has delivered another great and very underrated movie. It has great special effects, a competent cast, great action, and much entertainment value.

The story is as follows. It is the year 2176. Humanity has colonized Mars. However, some minors in the remote colony of Shining Canyon have dug up the remnants of an ancient civilization that used to inhabit Mars. There ghost are still inhabiting the place and possess the minors and turn them into zombies of some sort. LT. Melanie (Natasha Henstridge) of the Martian Police Force and her unit are sent to the c\Canyon to investigate and to pick up a dangerous criminal named James ‘Desolation” Williams (Ice Cube). So they must work together to escape alive.

The cast does very well surprisingly. Natasha Henstridge does a great job in the role and her character is badass and does not take crap from anyone. She is actually more of the protagonist than Ice Cube which is weird because he has top-billing in this film. In fact this is a good movie for women. This movie has quite a few badass women in it. Ice Cube actually does pretty well, which is surprising. The only films Ice Cube was in that I like are Are We There Yet? And Are We Done Yet? which are guilty pleasures of mine. Jason Statham is also in the film and he does a good job as well. Statham is always badass. The rest of the cast is fine as well.

The film looks great. The look of Mars is done very well given the budget they had. The zombies look great and intimidating. The sounds they make them ever more intimidating. The score is very well none and catchy. John Carpenter always composes great score for his films. The film also has some fun action scenes during the middle and ending portions of the movie.

There is one issue I have with it and it can get quite annoying. The issue is how the film is structured. The story is told out of order. The majority of the movie takes place in flashback. Many times there are flashbacks within the flashbacks or even flashbacks within flashbacks within flashbacks. Often they go back to scenes that already happened and expend on them to give us more information. Are you trying to be Memento, because you failed? Some stories can work being told in non-linear order like Memento or Batman Begins, but with this it does not work. Plus, doing it in that format pretty much gives away who is going to live and who is not. Also some shots are edited weird so it is hard to make out what is happening.

Despite its flaws, Ghosts of Mars is a very interesting and entertaining sci-fi film. If you are a fan of science fiction or of John Carpenter, then definitely check this out. You should have a good time if nothing else.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Bad Movie
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Ghosts of Mars is a decent popcorn action movie, but it's a bad movie on basically every level. If you don't mind seeing something aggressively stupid just to see some explosions, this one's for you.

The setup: Pointless. Carpenter throws a ton of ideas at the wall, like apparently Mars is a matriarchal society now, but this doesn't matter at all to the plot. This movie only takes place on Mars to explain why Carpenter was filming in the desert with hilariously empty sets. The bulk of the movie takes place in 2 rooms and on one street. The entire rest of the film comprises about 3 rooms and one more outdoor area. That's it. All the setup, all the attempts at world building, and you're just staring at a handful of people handing out in a room for most of the movie.

The plot: Zombies. Again, there's an attempt at world building, but this is a bog standard plot. A paramilitary team investigate a derelict compound, and it turns out zombies have murdered the locals. The team fight off the zombies when they're not busy infighting. There's also something about Ice Cube being a really famous criminal.

So why would I watch this? So far my description probably seems really boring. But then Ice Cube throws hand grenades at space zombies. That's the real reason to watch this film. Natasha Hensridge (of "Species" fame) does some spinning kicks at the zombie. Jason Statham and Pam Greer are on the zombie team. It's a star-sudded cast with a heavy metal soundtrack. Some of the big action set pieces are a lot of fun, but there's never very intelligent. People run in a direction, zombies attack them. They turn around because John Carpenter only had the one street to shoot on, and now they have to shoot their way through the zombies again. That happens a few times in the film.

But that sounds awesome. If "Ice Cube blows up zombies" interests you, definitely give this film a spin. But that's it. The worst part for me is that the leader of the Martian zombies is probably supposed to be screaming at his minions in Martian, but Carpenter never hired a language coach. So the guy just makes baby talk "Gah-gah rah-rah" sounds menacingly at the camera. Most viewers laugh out loud rather than being intimidated. The sets are cheap, the locations are few, the script is terrible. The only thing that gets the full treatment are the explosions - and they are glorious.

Overall: A totally forgettable popcorn action movie. See it for the explosions and Ice Cube's one liners. Not for the script.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I usually don't look at the additional features unless I am really bored so that I can not speak to
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2016
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Okay, so to be fair I have seen this movie probably 30 times. I sadly do not have a VCR at my house and the only copy I had was the VHS. So I went out and bought, obviously, the DVD version and it is the same as on the VHS, except clearer and it is special edition. I usually don't look at the additional features unless I am really bored so that I can not speak to, but the overall movie is great, the graphics are good, and the overall package is nice.

So now to the actual movie. It is campy, well some people may say it is really campy, but I think it is only a B+ movie instead of a full B rated. The main character is a criminal and is destined to be moved to another jail. To get there he must take a train through the rural, dusty, dangerous wilds of Mars. Yes, this is a "science fiction/horror" movie. So bad things start to happen as they do when you are screwing with stuff beyond your knowledge and an evil force is released. This evil force decides that it likes to self-mutilate itself and maybe cannibalize each other.

So obviously it is gory, but the gore isn't modern day horror movie gore, but more the preception of gore, I mean yes people get shot.. and heads on pikes, but there isn't the in your face there is in modern movies.

I don't like Horror movies, but this is one of my favorite movies of all time.
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Wolfclaw
5.0 out of 5 stars Ein super Sci-Fi Horror Film von John Carpenter
Reviewed in Germany on March 24, 2024
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Ein John Carpenters Film.
Diesmal ein Sci-Fi Horror Film auf den Mars.
Auf den Mars ist zu ¾ Terraformiert und es ist schon eine relative große Bevölkerung auf den Mars.
Bei einer Ausgrabung findet man Ruinen von den Ureinwohnern des Mars. Sie können die Menschlichen Körper übernehmen und schlagen extrem blutig zurück.
Es sind einige bekannte Schauspieler dabei. Jason Statham (man war der da noch jung) Ice Cube, Pam Grier.
Der Film ist Thrash und die Logikfehler sollte man ignorieren.
Ich finde einer der besten John Carpenter Filme, auch wenn er schon über 20 Jahr alt ist. Ich finde der Film ist immer noch sehenswert.

Fazit:“ Ein Super Sci Fi Film von John Carpenter“
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Leo
5.0 out of 5 stars Película de culto a buen precio
Reviewed in Spain on January 13, 2020
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Película de culto a buen precio
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Ismael Dugain
5.0 out of 5 stars Carpenter, cinéaste de génie
Reviewed in France on February 24, 2013
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Je suis fan de John Carpenter même si ce film a une réputation bizarre car quelques personnes ne l'aime pas car il a l'air d'avoir été fait avec des decors en carton pâte.
Personnellement ça ne me dérange pas.
Comme pour Existenz de Cronenberg, il a l'air d'être filmé avec de petits moyens mais ce film était absolument novateur
par rapport au rapprochement des Humains et des machines et du virtuel.
Je tâche d'acquérir une bonne partie de ces films ainsi que ceux de Cronenberg, Lynch, Coppola, Polanski,
Ce sont pour moi des réalisateurs de génie et la liste est encore bien longue.
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三Ｑ郎
5.0 out of 5 stars ボクはトウフ屋だからトウフしか作らない
Reviewed in Japan on March 5, 2016
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いつだったか、小津ファンの友人に「小津安二郎とジョンカーペンターって似たとこない？」と言ったら、変な顔されたのを思い出しますね。
後にカーペンターファンの鷲巣義明氏が著書の中でそのあたりのこと書かれていて「やっぱりそうだよね」と膝を打ちました。
（二人ともお気に入りの監督さんなんですけど）小津さんもカーペンター氏もどこか共通点があるように思います。

さて本作の感想。
他の方が書かれているレビュー「まんま」です（笑）
皆さん的を得てるというか、よくわかっていらっしゃる。
「チープ」「B級」「箱庭的」「ホークス」「西部劇」「火星版要塞警察」etc.
21世紀になって製作された映画とはとても思えない作品です（笑）。
映像的にも「そんな主観描写や、オーバーラップ、ワイプの使い方なんてイマドキあり？」の古臭い演出です。
「火星の幽霊」なんてタイトルからしてアナクロで古めかしい（苦笑）
でも、でもですよ。
星の数に注目なさって下さい。
皆さん４〜５つけてます。
カーペンターファンの自分としては、心強いというか、嬉しくなっちゃいますね。
「芸術は俺に従う」
とは小津監督の言葉ですが、カーペンター監督には死ぬまで「このままでいて欲しい」ですね。
監督、応援してます！
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Mel
5.0 out of 5 stars Bestens!!
Reviewed in Germany on April 11, 2024
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Einwandfreie Qualität! Vielen Dank!!
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