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Ghosts of Mars is John Carpenter's newest dark action movie.  One by one mining colonies on Mars (the only kind of colony actually) are coming up mysteriously empty.  Something has been unleashed on the red planet and the humans are paying for it.  A group of Mars Police officers are on their way to a colony to pick up a most dangerous criminal, Desolation Williams, charged with the murder of several people.  He supposedly cut off his victim's heads and hung them upside down.  When the police get to the colony they find out that something more sinister than a single criminal is at work.  To get out alive they are going to have to team up with Desolation especially as they begin to disappear or die one by one as the terrible truth is revealed.

Ghosts of Mars is pretty much a pure action flick with only slightest traces of even an attempt at being scary.  There is lots of blood, and other related violence but no attempt is really made to have any tension or fear.  The acting is fairly decent and there is some fancy attempts at directing which for the most part are just kind of distracting.  So, once the viewer gets in action mode this is a pretty good movie but not necessarily anything that will evoke the need to watch it multiple times unless one is a fan of Natasha Henstridge.  John Carpenter provided some of the musical score and the work is all right but certainly nothing brilliant like say what he did for his Halloween.

( Thank you for reading my review.
Bob Male)

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