Ghost Ship: Critic Reviews

30%

MovieWeb: 1 reviews

13%

RottenTomatoes: 124 reviews

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Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

42

That creaking noise you hear in Ghost Ship is the rattling of countless plot skeletons that have sunk before.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Stephen Holden New York Times (Top Critic)

40

So preoccupied with delivering its effects that it doesn't bother to make sense of its story.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

40

The setting is perfectly promising -- but this is the usual dumbed-down stuff, heading for the video bin.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Ann Hornaday Washington Post (Top Critic)

Doesn't orchestrate the scares with much finesse.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Richard Harrington Washington Post (Top Critic)

The plot doesn't always make sense, despite a thunderous explicatory montage halfway through, but as a fresh setting for terror shenanigans, this Ghost Ship is somewhere between B minus and the High Cs.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Janice Page Boston Globe (Top Critic)

25

All the Queen's Men is a throwback war movie that fails on so many levels, it should pay reparations to viewers.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Mark Holcomb Village Voice (Top Critic)

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.
Full Review » 10 years ago
David Germain Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

A ticket to tedium, a horror movie so devoid of horror that mouths will open wide in yawns, without a scream to be heard.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Matt Weitz Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

42

A spooky yarn of demonic doings on the high seas that works better the less the brain is engaged.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

It's better than you expect but not as good as you hope.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Loren King Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

50

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.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

38

Although there are several truly jolting scares, there's also an abundance of hackneyed dialogue and more silly satanic business than you can shake a severed limb at.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

50

Full Review » 10 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

Was I scared? Only at the prospect of Beck's next project. Let's see, a haunted house, a haunted ship, what's next . . . Ghost Blimp?
Full Review » 10 years ago
Robert Koehler Variety (Top Critic)

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.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jonathan Foreman New York Post (Top Critic)

25

A big, incoherent bore, interesting only as an example of assembly-line movie-making gone awry.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

20

The script is a clumsy patchwork of The Shining, Alien and anything else the writers could rent (not read, mind you) at Blockbuster.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Geoff Pevere Toronto Star (Top Critic)

20

The whole thing plays out with the drowsy heaviness of synchronized swimmer wearing a wool wetsuit.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

38

Talk about scary -- the entire last half of the flick is a spectral presence that can hardly be said to exist.
Full Review » 10 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

Aside from an occasional, half-hearted 'boo!' moment, there's nothing scary about this movie.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

A lame script, featuring sorry dialogue and a senseless story, is more likely to provoke laughs than screams from its intended audience.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Manohla Dargis Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

20

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.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Carly Kocurek Common Sense Media

20

Do not board Ghost Ship.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed

Full Review » 3 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

50

Three things can be counted on from Warner Bros. and Dark Castle's annual Halloween release: (1) a lot of spiffy special effects; (2) a fair amount of gore; and (3) not one single scare.
Full Review » 3 years ago