A box office bomb at release, is this another underrated film by the horror legend, or is it just bad?
A lawman takes the iron horse to a mining town on the frontier. An outlaw by the name of Desolation awaits retrieval to stand trial in the city. The only problem? Ghosts. Or Mars. Or flashbacks nestled inside flashbacks. Admittedly, John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars is a patchwork of problems, having released in 2001 to a critical drubbing.
John Carpenter rarely made sequels to his own movies, with an exception like Escape from L.A. being a radical departure from Escape from New York. This leaves a science fiction film like Ghosts of Mars with more world-building than it strictly requires, as the story begins with proper nouns like the "Matronage" and "Utopia" — a penal colony on Jericho’s résumé — before its scope collapses onto a siege plot.
The scenario plays out logically, like the earlier Return of the Living Dead and its undying zombies. It turns out, there is no way to truly stop these angry Martian spirits, so Melanie and Desolation walk into the closing credits with a promise that they’ll keep on fighting. “Let’s just kick some ass,” Desolation says. “It’s what we do best,” Melanie responds, and that’s the final line of the movie.
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