The plot doesn't always make sense, despite a thunderous explicatory montage halfway through, but as a fresh setting for terror shenanigans.
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Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Beck wants to dazzle the audience. I'd settle for a story.
38
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Pureed, predictable conflation of ''Alien'' and ''Titanic'' and ''The Shining.''
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Ghost Ship, which can best be described by altering one consonant in the second word, sustains the stylishness of its opening for exactly three minutes.
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Pretty much what you'd expect -- just another haunted house that happens to float.
So preoccupied with delivering its effects that it doesn't bother to make sense of its story.
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Miami Herald
Miami Herald
Coincidentally, this is the second movie in two weeks about a haunted seafaring vessel ("Below" is the other), and if you see just one, this shouldn't be it.
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Meandering, sub-aquatic mess: It's so bad it's good, but only if you slide in on a freebie.
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Village VoiceMark Holcomb
Village VoiceMark Holcomb
Despite a couple of inventive CGI effects (one involving mass evisceration), the results are more predictable and less frightening than a Con Ed bill in mid August.