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Mixed or average reviews- based on 37 Ratings

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 26
  2. Negative: 15 out of 26
  1. 80
    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.
  2. 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.
  3. It starts as enjoyable B-movie pulp, degenerates to camp, then turns into laughable lunacy.
  4. 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.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 17
  2. Negative: 9 out of 17
  1. epic
  2. Could have been great, but it wasn't. Cheesy and amateur! I think Carpenter is one of the finest filmmakers the horror genre has ever seen, but this one is embarrassing when compared to the Carpenter canon. Sadly, Ice Cube gives the best performance in the film. All the while, I suppose this is another guilty pleasure of mine.....I've got it on blu-ray! Expand
  3. john carpenter has made some great horror films like the 1982 version of The Thing and one of my favorite horror movies of all time In The Mouth of madness . this movie had promise decent set up unfortunitly it doesnt go any where intresting and when it does touch on some thing that is intresting like the waring alien races its so small unfortunitly . its just abunch of guys fighting deranged humans dressed like mad max on mars . you could almost call it mad max on mars . this movie could have been up there with the other 2 i listed but it was a oppertunity failed. Expand
  4. So dreadfully low quality that I don't even know what to say. I will grant it one star because its incompetence gives me a laugh. But sincerely, this is barely even a movie. Expand

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