Director:
Steve BeckCámara:
Gale TattersallMúsica:
John FrizzellReparto:
Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard, Desmond Harrington, Isaiah Washington, Alex Dimitriades, Karl Urban, Emily Browning, Francesca RettondiniStreaming (3)
Sinopsis(1)
La tripulación del Arctic Warrior, liderada por el capitán Murphy se gana la vida recuperando barcos perdidos o a la deriva en alta mar. Un día van al encuentro del Antonia Graza, un crucero de lujo que desapareció hace más de 40 años en un remoto lugar del mar Bering. Si lo llevan a puerto la recompensa les solucionará la vida, pero una vez a bordo del fantasmagórico y tenebroso barco, descubren que el barco en descomposición no está desierto ni mucho menos. Alberga algo más mortífero y terrorífico que cualquier cosa con la que se haya enfrentado en todos los años que han pasado en el mar. (Warner Bros. España)
(más)Reseñas (4)
If you want to watch Ghost Ship, I recommend especially the opening scene, which is very well-shot, and there are also great contrasts and an excellent finale. However, the rest definitely doesn't live up to expectations, it's just a drawn-out treasure hunt featuring one lunatic. The characters aren't particularly well-developed and are somewhat predictable given that most of the action takes place on the ship.
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Un montón de personajes poco interesantes recorriendo los interiores de la nave y experimentando cosas desagradables. No sólo lo hemos visto todo cientos de veces antes, sino que cada minuto lo matan con giros más absurdos y estúpidos. Estaba tranquilo durante los créditos iniciales y molesto durante los créditos finales. ¡Eso es lo que yo llamo gradación emocional! Una estrella sólo por los actores de la lista A y un presupuesto superior al de películas igual de malas.
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Ghost Ship can serve as a reflection on how the opinions of others influence our judgment, as well as on how deceptive such judgments can be. This stands out especially when compared to the Spanish horror film Rec. In the end, I gave both films almost the same percentage rating. Rec received excellent reviews and praise that fueled my high expectations, which were ultimately not completely fulfilled, whereas Ghost Ship had very critical and venomous reviews that cooled my expectations to a minimum. In the end, I was pleasantly surprised because I really didn't expect anything from it. Ghost Ship is obviously not great art; viewers must look elsewhere for that, and it does not represent a genre peak in any way. It is just an average, routine ghost story that can boast of having a few decent scenes, such as the execution of the passengers or the gradual discovery of the interior of the abandoned wreck. However, it is also limited by mediocre directing and screenplay. Compared to Rec, it does have a more decent cast, especially someone like Gabriel Byrne, who demonstrates why he is a respected actor even in a film like this. Undoubtedly, more could have been extracted from it, and undoubtedly, there are a number of clichés in the film, but let's be honest, I found more of them in Rec. Moreover, practically no other genre, perhaps with the exception of space opera, has as many horror series sequels as A Nightmare on Elm Street, Children of the Corn, Halloween, etc., which are squeezed to absurdity. Those directors and screenwriters use clichéd scenes precisely because they know they work very well on horror audiences. All in all, it is an average, but sometimes quite entertaining B-movie: 50% overall impression.
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A horror film for not very demanding viewers. A really great and memorable scene comes right at the beginning, then the film stumbles until it reaches the end. The story is a classic B-movie ghost story, a slightly modernized version of a famous tale that has been told by salted-to-the-bone sea wolves in various variations for God knows how many generations. And to make matters worse, it is in the naive spirit (hehe) of the series I don’t like called Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. It has some promising moments (the aforementioned opening can't be topped, though) and it goes by quickly, so in the end why not. Two and a half.
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