I thought I was in for a real good John Carpenter flick...it was like watching a bad car crash so horrible you can't turn your eyes away from it. Carpenter's direction is over shadowed by the script he himself shared in writing with Larry Sulkis.
A peace officer Melanie Ballard(Natasha Henstridge)tells by way of flashbacks her survival of a gory event on the planet Mars. She is joined by a group of "cops" featuring a lesbian commander(Pam Grier)and a deviate electronics specialist(Jason Statham). The crack unit is to bring back to authorities a fearsome thief and killer 'Desolation' Williams(Ice Cube). When their futuristic train arrives at the prison they find the colonists have gone mad...except for Dr. Whitlock(Joanna Cassidy). The Martian mine workers have become victims of a mysterious wind that turns them into zombies. GHOSTS OF MARS is actually about zombies...not ghosts.
Henstridge is at times very easy on the eyes. Cassidy is pretty bland and wasted. Ice Cube is better than you would think. GHOSTS OF MARS is not one of Carpenter's best, but endurable.
A peace officer Melanie Ballard(Natasha Henstridge)tells by way of flashbacks her survival of a gory event on the planet Mars. She is joined by a group of "cops" featuring a lesbian commander(Pam Grier)and a deviate electronics specialist(Jason Statham). The crack unit is to bring back to authorities a fearsome thief and killer 'Desolation' Williams(Ice Cube). When their futuristic train arrives at the prison they find the colonists have gone mad...except for Dr. Whitlock(Joanna Cassidy). The Martian mine workers have become victims of a mysterious wind that turns them into zombies. GHOSTS OF MARS is actually about zombies...not ghosts.
Henstridge is at times very easy on the eyes. Cassidy is pretty bland and wasted. Ice Cube is better than you would think. GHOSTS OF MARS is not one of Carpenter's best, but endurable.