Storyline
Melanie Ballard (Natasha Henstridge) is a hard nosed police chief in the year 2025. She and a police snatch squad are sent to Mars to apprehend a dangerous criminal James Williams (Ice Cube). Mars has been occupied by humans for some time and they have set up mining facilities. The mining activities on Mars have unleashed the spirits of alien beings who gradually possess the bodies of the workers. It soon turns out that catching the dangerous fugitive takes a back seat as the alien spirits begin to rid their planet of the 'invaders'.
Directors
Cast
Jason Statham, Richard Cetrone, Rex Linn, Ice Cube, Joanna Cassidy, Duane Davis, Clea DuVall, Peter Jason, Pam Grier, Lobo Sebastian, Michael Krawic, Doug McGrath, Natasha Henstridge, Marjean Holden, Rosemary Forsyth, Rodney A. Grant, Wanda De Jesus, Liam Waite, Rick Edelstein, Robert Carradine, Eileen Weisinger
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Reviews
80
L.A. Weekly
It's cheap thrills all the way, served up with the kind of situational purity that only Carpenter seems to care for these days. It's that simple and that much fun.
60
It might be nice if Ghosts of Mars had more to offer than snappy repartee and shameless gore, or if it could borrow a little narrative tension from its Alien Chain Saw forebears.
42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A redundancy, and a bore. The characters are harrowingly unsympathetic, the action sequences are by-the-numbers, and Carpenter's usual saving grace -- his sense of humor -- is nowhere in evidence.
38
While this cheesy, heavy-metal melange of horror, space hooey and cowboy shoot-'em-ups isn't exactly dull, it isn't anything to write home about either.
25
Carpenter pulls out all the action-adventure stops, but he and coscripter Larry Sulkis forgot to write dialogue the audience could listen to without howling in disbelief.
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