let face it and carpenter lose the touch somewhere along the line . i mean and im a big a fan of his good work ( prince of darkness and in the mouth of madness and the thing and village of the damn and big trouble in little china and escape from ny and vampire ) a anyone . all those film get good to great actor and great script and be fresh in direction and keep the suspense . ghost of mar on the other hand can not be direct by the same guy and it just not possible . the cast be horrendous and i have see well act in porn . the direction be slow and inefficient and have dozen of cardinal mistake and the cutting be equally sad . the actor move like actor and not professional cop and the streewise attitude be sooo bad and the fighting be bad than my grandma . even the makeup suck and the bodyparts look just like what they be and plastic . it suppose to be 2179 or something and but they use 70 walkie talkie and have to go fetch each other all the time instead of have efficient comms . it just ruin all of the movie . it not even b and it c or even bad . i be actually squirm while watchin it repeat no no no . and finally just have to end it misery after the first hour . i just couldn not stand it . it just couldn not keep my interest up . me and my friend would have make a more interesting and compelling movie with a handcam in a week . carpenter must have go senile and because his movie have traditionally be some of the best around . so dont pick this one up and go get one of his good work instead ( like one of the above mention ) . and he actually make good movie pretty recent . but ghost of mar only value would be to show to aspire film make a an example of all the mistake you do not want to make in shoot a movie .