Jim Caviezel’s Ghost Soldier just hit theaters, and critics are not holding back. Reviewers are not too impressed by the film and have dissected the action-thriller’s biggest problems.
Jim Caviezel’s Ghost Soldier gets negative reviews and Rotten Tomatoes score
Jim Caviezel’s action-thriller Ghost Soldier has opened to negative reviews from critics. The film currently holds a 45% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 11 reviews. Audiences have responded more favorably, giving it a 90% Popcornmeter rating from over 250 verified ratings.
The William Eubank-directed film stars Caviezel as Henry “Fitz” Fitzgerald, a former Special Forces soldier. Fitz lives quietly off the grid until a foreign corporation tries to seize his community’s land. He then uses his military training and advanced weapons to fight back against the threat.
Todd Gilchrist of Variety gave the film a negative review. He wrote that “Eubank’s glossy direction, paired with a merciless urgency (and complete lack of originality) in Papsadero’s script, renders the story’s ripped-from-the-headlines details with too little dimensionality even to deliver the satisfaction of a good B-movie.” Siddhant Adlakha of AV Club also panned the film, writing that “Ghost Soldier is barely coherent, and it makes some audacious promises it doesn’t even try to keep.”
Clint Worthington of RogerEbert.com rated it 0.5 out of 4 stars. He described it as “another proselytizing punch-em-up” that “attacks them from the craziest of angles.” Nick Schager of The Daily Beast offered a more positive take.
He called it “woefully hackneyed” but noted it “boasts a jingoistic B-movie spirit.” Glenn Kenny of the New York Times gave the film a fresh review. He wrote that the satisfaction of “watching Fitz knock them down, briskly, is the movie’s raison d’être.”
The PG-13 rated film runs 90 minutes and stars Garret Dillahunt, Shea Whigham, Olivia Thirlby, and Beau Knapp in key supporting roles.
