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Title: Rather bland, standard ghost story.
Review: I watched Ghost Ship and Resident Evil within a day of each other and the difference was quite startling. Where Resident Evil was a rollercoaster of pacing and noise with a great back story, Ghost Ship lumbers along without much direction. Salvaging a luxury liner whose passengers were mysteriously `dispatched' in the 60's, a glorified tug boat captained by a tired and haggard looking Gabriel Byrne must try to understand why his crew is suddenly disappearing. This film just didn't really engage me. The chick from ER as a spot welding heroine? Not only do I not find her attractive anyhow, but that just didn't cut it in the story itself. The tug crew running around in the old rusted and rotted carcass of the ship reminded me and made me pine for a DVD version of Attack of the Mushroom People. Now there was a ghost ship story worth something.
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