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America loves convenience. After all, we are the culture that invented the cell phone, the ATM 24 hours a day and the most beloved remote control. In 2001, in his final effort as a filmmaker, iconic director John Carpenter brought our love for convenience too far.
Ghosts of Mars The VHS rental icon of the 90s, Natasha Hestridge, as a hard police, the Martian police, sent with their squad to recover ‘demolition’ Williams (Ice Cube) of a remote mining city for home trial. When she and her comrades, appropriately called ‘The Commander’ (icon of the Pam Grier screen), ‘The Rookies’, and the guy with the great accent (a non -famous Jason Statham) discovered the residents of the city killed in the city, they are forced to form a team with Williams to escape the residents of the residents of the residents of the head aliens and aliens.
Full of excessive use of narrative flashbacks, flash-sideways and point of view changes, Ghosts of Mars It is a misforturate mixture of poorly constructed dialogue and poorly conceived action sequences. The only thing that prevents this film from becoming an incomprehensible disaster is the idiotic simplicity of its history. Started directly from the pages of a zombie movie from the 70s, Ghosts It jumps from a convenient moment to the next, stopping only to kill the most convenient characters to lose.
The character’s interaction and development attempts are rare and forced. Most of these moments are detached as the wisdom of Kwik-E-Mart, dispensed with all my heart around the Slushee life machine by the hand of the Street of Uniform Street of Ice Cube. With a gun in one hand and a dynamite cap in the other, Cube remembers about his life on the street, comparing the fun of Zombie Parliament with ‘I and my brother when we were children’. Apparently, the crime in the Bronx has become so bad that residents have really taken to ride themselves for entertainment.
But, even in the darkest moments of the film, fate gives it a hand conveniently, providing strongly armored transport and rifles and easily accessible dynamite. Yes, in the future, man can travel to space and conquer Mars, but nothing exceeds a good TNT stick. As we all know, each police station, past, present or future, maintains a healthy dynamite supply.
The characters die, the heads move, but they were only support roles, so why should we import ourselves? As long as it has many narcotics, immunity is guaranteed. Eventually, however, even the most trained zombie alien becomes a bit optimistic and needs a lesson to be taught.
What better way than sacrificing some minor characters for a convenient nuclear detonation, killing anything that machine guns cannot handle. The explosions are fun. And even if the nuclear weapons do not obtain them, the dynamite packages conveniently placed on the stolen train of the set of THE WARRIOR OF THE ROAD It will certainly do it.
Ghosts of Mars He defines himself when the police court pronounces: “Is that all that has to be said?” In fact, this was the place where filmmaker John Carpenter was left without things to say and, instead, he decided to use whatever he was convenient to tell a ridiculously bad story.
Ghosts of Mars Review score
Ghosts of Mars ended John Carpenter’s career
Run on August 24, 2001, the film raised only $ 14 million worldwide against a budget of $ 28 million, which marked it as a significant box office disappointment. The worst of all, almost everyone hated him. Ghosts of Mars It has a 23% qualification in Rotten Tomatoes. The public was not impressed in a similar way, which gave it a C Cinemascore qualification.
This was the last film directed by the man who brought unforgettable films such as The thing, Hallowe’en, Great problems in little Chinaand New York Exhaust. After Ghosts of MarsCarpenter moved to the music business. Music was always one of his passions, that is why the sound in his films is always so unique. It is the perfect way for an icon to spend its last years. Now, do your best to forget about Ghosts of Mars.
