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On the DVD: Ghosts of Mars on disc comes with Dolby Digital sound and its original widescreen ratio of 2.35:1. A sparky commentary by Carpenter and Henstridge is included, which is informative, but otherwise there are uninspiring documentaries on the musical score, the special effects and the difficulties of shooting at night in the Mexican desert, as well as filmographies and the theatrical trailer. --Roz Kaveney
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I mean, there's 200 psychos on the rampage and you're not supposed to kill them! So what do our heroes do? They blow the consequences! That's John Carpenter!
It's not the best film he has ever made but to his credit he's constantly renewing the framework he builds his films around.
This film has been denegrated by many reviewers but have these people forgotten how cliched his films can be? Surely this is one of their main attractions: they don't pretend to be anything else!
It has many similarities to a legion of other films (eg. Assault on Precinct 13, Mad Max and Rio Bravo). Carpenter has never worried about these things- take 'The Thing' for example which is a remake of Howard Hawk's 'Thing from another World'.
Ultimately though it's not scary - it's 'safe' really despite the threat of extinction and there's not enough time in the film to build tension and suspense.
Natasha Henstridge is a revelation in the lead role - she's a good actress! Jason Statham is brilliant too as the Cockney Sergeant (although I've yet to see him as anything else but 'streetwise)
The fighting (and there's a lot of it) is stylised and well choreographed (especially Henstridge).
Once again Carpenter writes the music and this time it's courtesy of Anthrax- I now see them in a new light.......
And finally, the DVD extras good- giving you a real insight into how the film was made.
If I know one thing about Carpenter's films, it's that they aren't meant to take themselves too seriously and I don't think we are as the audience. I think he wants us to have fun and perhaps get a little scared in the process. I'd never advise anyone to analyse a Carpenter film and demand of it any real psychological depth to the characters or deep meaningful substories to the plot. It isn't Carpenter's best, sure, but it IS Carpenter and does have many of his trademakes. SO, if you are a fan, I don't think you'll be too disappointed making this part of your collection.
If you are bored of Hollywood's tiresome offerings of buddy-buddy films, America saves the planet films, American re-writes history films and sickly cliched spiritual moment films, this just may be the light relief that you're looking for.
Carpenter's Martian Western is 'Assault on Precinct 13' meets 'The Fog' with a little of 'The Thing' thrown in... Read more
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