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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Washington PostWashington PostThe plot doesn't always make sense, despite a thunderous explicatory montage halfway through, but as a fresh setting for terror shenanigans.
- 50Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerSeattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerBeck wants to dazzle the audience. I'd settle for a story.
- 38Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrPureed, predictable conflation of ''Alien'' and ''Titanic'' and ''The Shining.''
- 38Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanGhost Ship, which can best be described by altering one consonant in the second word, sustains the stylishness of its opening for exactly three minutes.
- 38The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenPretty much what you'd expect -- just another haunted house that happens to float.
- 30The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenSo preoccupied with delivering its effects that it doesn't bother to make sense of its story.
- 25Miami HeraldMiami HeraldCoincidentally, 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.
- 20Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovMeandering, sub-aquatic mess: It's so bad it's good, but only if you slide in on a freebie.
- 20Village VoiceMark HolcombVillage VoiceMark HolcombDespite 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.
- 10Los Angeles TimesManohla DargisLos Angeles TimesManohla DargisSee evil. See evil run. Run, evil, run all the way to cable television purgatory.