Ghost Ship (2002) Critic Reviews

The plot doesn't always make sense, despite a thunderous explicatory montage halfway through, but as a fresh setting for terror shenanigans.Read the full review

Is the film worth seeing? Depends. It breaks no new ground as horror movies go, but it does introduce an intriguing location, and it's well made technically. It's better than you expect but not as good as you hope.Read the full review

About as frightening as Walt Disney's Haunted Mansion.Read the full review

That creaking noise you hear in Ghost Ship is the rattling of countless plot skeletons that have sunk before.Read the full review

Pureed, predictable conflation of ''Alien'' and ''Titanic'' and ''The Shining.''Read the full review

Doesn't orchestrate the scares with much finesse.Read the full review

Likely to appeal only to undiscriminating nudity-- and gore -- starved adolescents.Read the full review

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 the full review

So preoccupied with delivering its effects that it doesn't bother to make sense of its story.Read the full review