Ghost Ship 2002

Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: A fine, old-fashioned haunting on the high seas. Read more

Janice Page, Boston Globe: All the Queen's Men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels, it should pay reparations to viewers. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: If you're in the right B-movie frame of mind, it may just scare the pants off you. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: A dumb movie with dumb characters doing dumb things and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is going. Read more

Loren King, Chicago Tribune: An adequate horror movie for the Halloween season, but it too easily sinks into haunted-house-film conventions, even if the haunted house is decked out as an Italian luxury liner. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: So preoccupied with delivering its effects that it doesn't bother to make sense of its story. Read more

Melanie McFarland, Seattle Times: Truly a cinematic albatross, Ghost Ship should be enjoyed after sipping some Halloween grog. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Audiences will feel more tricked than treated after sitting through this silly gorefest that wastes the talents of several good actors. Read more

Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: Ghost Ship is the sort of flimflam that would have filled eight paneled pages in the great horror comic book Tales From the Crypt or consumed about 30 minutes on the latter-day HBO spinoff. Read more

David Germain, Houston Chronicle: A ticket to tedium, a horror movie so devoid of horror that mouths will open wide in yawns, without a scream to be heard. Read more

Entertainment Weekly: That creaking noise you hear in Ghost Ship is the rattling of countless plot skeletons that have sunk before. Read more

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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Talk about scary -- the entire last half of the flick is a spectral presence that can hardly be said to exist. Read more

Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News: A spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged. Read more

Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: It was a dark and stormy night... Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: In the not-too-distant future, movies like Ghost Ship will be used as analgesic balm for overstimulated minds. Right now, they're merely signposts marking the slow, lingering death of imagination. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Aside from an occasional, half-hearted 'boo!' moment, there's nothing scary about this movie. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's better than you expect but not as good as you hope. Read more

Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: A stupid, derivative horror film that substitutes extreme gore for suspense. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: The whole thing plays out with the drowsy heaviness of synchronized swimmer wearing a wool wetsuit. Read more

Trevor Johnston, Time Out: The final reel plots a course smack between predictable and sheer idiocy. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: Launched with a few surprising touches and a disturbingly bloody prelude, horror pic collapses under the weight of its own dull conception and weak direction, dialogue and character portraits. Read more

Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: In a cut-and-paste job more transparent than ectoplasm, Ghost Ship screenwriters Mark Hanlon and John Pogue plunder every notable horror movie from the last 30 years. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Doesn't orchestrate the scares with much finesse. Read more