bkoganbing
An interesting and incongruous mixture of martial arts and old fashioned gunslinging happen in this western of Ghost Rock. The film is so named after a town where Gary Busey is the town boss. He's having some threats to his leadership coming and he's brought in a group of outlaws as enforcers headed by David Jean Thomas who look like they enjoy their work. Our nominal hero is Michael Worth who can use a little training in both the martial arts and firearms. He's aided and abetted by Sharon Stone ripoff Jenya Lano.The film is poor in about every department you can name. I guess you either needed the late David Carradine for this kind of hybrid film or Chuck Norris in his salad days.
Ed-Shullivan
Okay so Dustin Rikert has a credit for both Writer and Director of this overly acted film. Oh and did I mention he also has a bit part in the movie with two of his brothers? Ghost Rock is noted as an Action, Drama, Western film but I think it would be more appropriate under the film genre Family Home Movie because it was so staged that I really thought the film was put together by a teenager without a single bit of editing.Western movies have been made for almost the past 100 years with actors like Randolph Scott, Audie Murphy, John Wayne, James Stewart, James Arness, and even Clint Eastwood making a great living from them. But I will say this for Ghost Rock, if you were to place the aforementioned lot of western stars in Ghost Rock, even they could not save the film from being a total dud.So I won't blame this films poor review on Gary Busey, Jeff Fahey or Adrienne Barbeau who for some reason agreed to make this film. I can only surmise that they got paid a ton of money for a week or two of shooting the film with no time or opportunity for re-shooting any of the scenes that did not quite work out the first time around. In this film's case, I think they would have had to re-shoot the entire movie with a more realistic script that was true to the western genre and not a mix of David Carradine's 1970's TV series Kung Fu combined with Charles Bronson's Death Wish series.Stay away from Ghost Rock.
villianthehero
first of all i stumbled across this movie on show-time about 5 in the morning when i couldn't sleep and nothing else was on. i like westerns and love martial arts movies so i thought id check it out.well there's nothing great about this movie in fact there's not much good about it. everything about it is average, the acting, the script, the directing, all in all its a average direct to video movie. the gun fights are OK nothing spectacular. the martial arts are probably the best thing in this movie but not nearly enough to make the movie any better.warning spoilers ahead some things i had a problem with, the hole ghost thing was a little weird. how is a ghost gonna interact with everyone, hold cards, push stuff around, drink a beer, and shoot people.some people are complaining about the clichés and the fact that a few scenes are taken from other movies. that doesn't bother me. there will always be clichés in movies. and one of the greatest directors from my generation takes bits and pieces from other movies all the time, and the director i speak of is none other than quentin tarintino.all in all if your up late and cant sleep and stumble across this go ahead and watch it if u like direct to video b movies and western / martial arts movies, but don't expect much.
wh08117-1
When I saw that Gary Busey was in this movie, I had to see it. I knew it would be bad, but I did not know how bad. This movie was bad, and not in a funny way. Gary Busey plays the mayor of a little Western town, and his job is to maintain order while a group of Chinese railroad workers and locals fight for control. There was so much fighting in this movie that it was hard to keep track of the reasons. The fighting was also matrix style, and it was kung fu. Gary Busey was not the only horrible actor in this movie, everyone involved was equally nauseating. I had to turn the movie off after an hour. The worst part is that I had this movie in my home for almost a week.
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