Synopsis
In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find the post deserted and something far more dangerous than any criminal — the original inhabitants of Mars, hellbent on getting their planet back.
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Cast
- Natasha HenstridgeLt. Melanie Ballard
- Ice CubeJames 'Desolation' Williams
- Pam GrierCommander Helena Braddock
- Jason StathamSgt. Jericho Butler
- Clea DuVallBashira Kincaid
- Joanna CassidyDr. Arlene Whitlock
- Richard CetroneBig Daddy Mars
- Rosemary ForsythInquisitor
- Liam WaiteMichael Descanso
- Duane DavisUno
Recommendations
- 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
Salon
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
Philadelphia Inquirer
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
Christian Science Monitor
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. - 25
Miami Herald
A horror/sci-fi/action mishmash that aims to be the kind of brainless timekiller once used to round out the bottom of a double bill at the drive-in. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
A tired and dispiriting affair that takes forever to get going. - 25
New York Daily News
I have an idea for a Mars movie. When our first astronauts step onto the Red Planet, they discover that Martians not only exist but that they've hired Johnnie Cochran to represent them in a massive defamation suit against American filmmakers.
