Review of Ghosts of Mars (2001) by Atomicchicken — 27 Nov 2018
By Far, John Carpenter's worst movie. It has the look of a TV movie of the week, rather than a John Carpenter masterpiece. He should have hired Dean Cundy to shoot this, so it would at least LOOK great.
The writing, the acting and yes, the direction of this film are amateurish and stilted. The editing is the worst of all, with a constant, confounding use of dissolves on live action for no apparent reason.
And then there's Ice Cube..What was Carpenter thinking? Then again this is the guy that ruined his masterpiece, Escape From New York with that turd, Escape from LA a couple years earlier. Seeing Snake Plissken riding a surf board made me physically ill.
Its mind boggling that this is the same mind and vision that gave us Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, Escape fro New York and The Thing.
This review of Ghosts of Mars (2001) was written by Atomicchicken on 27 November 2018.
Ghosts of Mars has generally received mixed reviews.
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