BootDigest
Such a frustrating disappointment
Gurlyndrobb
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Allison Davies
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Thy Davideth
Ghost In The Machine is a film with ideas that could of worked but just doesn't execute well. The idea that some moron who magically transfers his soul or whatever in the internet is a little retarded for my taste. A self aware malignant computer virus would of been more creepy and cool. But noooooooooooooo! What bull$#!+. Anyways, the downfall to this crap is the annoying acting performances of these untalented people, p!$$ poor execution in storytelling and pacing and crappy direction. Some of the deaths are neat and the virtual reality effects are...... uh nice, I guess. I gave this butth0!# a 4 because the final confrontation was good but overall, it's just stupid.
SnoopyStyle
Josh Munroe likes to pull scams with his friend Frazer. His single computer-illiterate mom Terry (Karen Allen) is overwhelmed. Karl Hochman is a technician at the computer store and also "The Address-Book Killer". He gets into a car crash and sent to the hospital. As he gets a CAT scan, an electrical surge downloads his consciousness into the network. He retrieves a page from Terry's address book and starts killing people on that page. Former computer hacker Bram Walker (Chris Mulkey) turn white hat in a main frame company tracks down the ghost in the machine.The kid is annoying while a brat. Karen Allen isn't able to save him or the movie. Mulkey is too old and doesn't look like a hacker. He's more of a blue collar guy. This was a time before the internet took off. I'm willing to accept some of the cheesy ideas about computers. The filmmakers spent a lot of time and money to represent the computer world but it isn't that compelling. It looks kind of bad. There are moments of fun horror. The kills are similar to the Final Destination movies. However, every good moment is interrupted by a bad moment like the creepy stripe tease in front of the boys. In the end, the bad moments outnumber the good.
Dylan Greenberg
One of the main reasons this movie was a box office failure was that Jurassic Park came out the same year, rivaling Ghost in the Machine in it's CGI, star power, and budget. There are some parts of the movie where the characters seem plain stupid. There's a scene where the beautiful babysitter, (who just five minutes ago had a pointless scene where she undoes her shirt for a couple of pre-teens) is watching TV with no headphones or anything other than the speakers to distract her from outside noise, and the dishwasher is made to overflow by the "Ghost in the Machine". Of course, as the water takes around 20 seconds to fill the area of the floor, the babysitter has absolutely no idea what is going on RIGHT UNDERNEATH HER FEET. And of course, she doesn't actually realize anything until the water makes contact with an electrical device and shocks her to death. Then, there is a part where the main protagonist, (Josh,) tries to run at the "Ghost", and Chris Mulkey holds him back, pulling out a very, VERY small pistol and attempting to fire at the entity. Of course, our supernatural antagonist is able to knock the gun out of his hand. He wouldn't even have to, though, because HE'S ALREADY DEAD. At the end, the movie borrows heavily from Terminator 2. Doesn't this sound familiar? A humanoid figure made out of 90's CGI liquid chasing a mother and son around a dangerous warehouse complete with sparks flying out of the walls and ceiling, while the handsome father figure to the boy wearing a coat tries to protect them? Well, you'll see that scene in both Terminator 2 AND Ghost in the Machine as your big finale. The reason I rated it a 7 is because it's still great fun, and certainly entertaining. My MAIN gripe is that Brandon Quintin Adams (from The People Under the Stairs) wasn't used half as much as he should have been.
Aaron1375
One scene, however, does not a movie make. This movie also has a plot that was done to death at this point. I think "Shocker" was just before or after this, the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies had already covered the subject which is that of a serial killer, killing from beyond the grave. Here the killer does it by using machines to move from place to place. The only memorable death scene though was the microwave one. There is mainly stupid scenes here and there that really go nowhere, still have never scene the virtual reality machines in your average arcade they showed here and it is now 2009. The movie is kind of a combination of the films "Shocker" and "Pulse" with this one really not doing anything special to distance itself from either of those two movies. I will not say avoid this movie at all costs though as it does have some entertainment value. It does have the feel of a movie that you can get your friends over and make fun of and there is always that microwave scene!
