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26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80L.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmL.A. WeeklyPaul MalcolmIt'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.
- 60SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirIt 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.
- 42Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldA 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.
- 38Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaWhile 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.
- 25Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittCarpenter 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.
- 25Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezA 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.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamSan Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamA tired and dispiriting affair that takes forever to get going.
- 25New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsI 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.
- 25New York PostJonathan ForemanNew York PostJonathan ForemanA deep disappointment to fans of sci-fi and the once great John Carpenter.
- 20Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovIt keeps you off balance, all right, but not enough to obscure the sad fact that Ghosts of Mars is a muddled, derivative disaster straight on through.