Rotten
The final reel plots a course smack between predictable and sheer idiocy.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Overview
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.
Director and cast
- Steve Beck Director
- Gabriel Byrne as Captain Sean Murphy
- Julianna Margulies as Maureen Epps
- Desmond Harrington as Jack Ferriman
- Ron Eldard as Dodge
- Isaiah Washington as Greer
- Karl Urban as Munder
- Emily Browning as Katie Harwood
- Francesca Rettondini as Francesca
- Bob Ruggiero as Captain (as Robert Ruggiero)
- Jamie Giddens Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
14%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A lame script, featuring sorry dialogue and a senseless story, is more likely to provoke laughs than screams from its intended audience.
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
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.
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice
Rotten
A dumb movie with dumb characters doing dumb things and you have to be really dumb not to see where this is going.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
This creaking vessel of a movie can't spice a routine story with genuine horror.
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
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