John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars

Starring: Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Pam Grier, et al.

Product Description

It's 200 years in the future. Man is rapidly terraforming Mars into a place that can sustain life. The only problem is that life already exists here and it's not too fond of its new co-habitants. A routine prisoner transfer goes awry when the police run into a Martian life force that transforms humans into their killing drones.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 043396062504
• Release Date: March 2002
• Rating: R
• Publisher: COLUMBIA/TRI-STAR
• Director: John Carpenter
• Starring: Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Pam Grier, Clea Duvall, Jason Statham, Joanna Cassidy, Richard Cetrone, Danielle Burgio, Wanda De Jesus, Lobo Sebastian
• Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

This is a thinly veiled shoot-em-up movie.

All this movie is just Mad Max on Mars. There are great quantities of blood, lots of action, and an appalling lack of s-e-x. Luckily, I saw the Blu-Ray version, so I was able to fast forward through most of it. The Blu-Ray also has commentaries that are not worth listening to. 200 years in the future, a train on autopilot enters the station with only one passenger handcuffed. She is brought in to the Council to explain her experiences. We get one big flashback. She was sent to pick up a prisoner in an outpost mining town. However, what she found there could infect the whole planet. We get to watch as they handle the situation, or try to handle the situation, or whatever. No time for the story, too busy slashing each other up with makeshift weapons that have little points on them and take more energy to build than the standard weapons of the time. No time for love, just drugs and killing and more killing and slicing and dicing and chop-O-medics and spitting blood and scratching your eyes out and so forth and so forth and so forth. Wouldn't you know it, no one stays in the car.