Red Planet

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Summary: Decent Movie but not really anything new
Review: Sci-fi fans will enjoy as will Kilmer or Moss fans. This movie really is not much removed from Mission to Mars... Basically can we live on Mars? Ok while you astronauts are there, something may go wrong, oops it did, now save your lives, ok, I can't go on, you save yourselfs while I try to save your life by giving mine... oops something else is wrong, now we can't leave, oh wait, if we do this and this, we can live, YEAH. I enjoy sci-fi and I really like Kilmer's work, but this movie will not rank high by either standard. A truly predictable movie, no huge twists but I am glad I saw it. Not really a movie you go tell your friends about, but if you are a Kilmer or sci-fi fan, then by all means check it out.

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Summary: Red cheeked embarassment.
Review: Personally I felt that the whole plot was horrible and lacked any total cohesion. It started out really well. The whole narration was a bit hokey but that is overlooked if the rest of the movie was heart pounding action. Yet this movie was like a Young and the Restless soap-opera on Mars. Personally I would not want to be Val Kilmer and have this movie in my entourage of movies. The cast was a strong cast and could have handled anything. Yet the director failed to place any major advisaries upon the planet save a derranged robot and a bug that could eat through ANYTHING (why did it not eat through the glass tube it was placed in?) and human nature. First of all they killed of the best actor out of the bunch at the begining. That was poor casting and screen writing. Second they brought about a plot hole... wait... the whole movie had plot holes in it. Personally I feel that it was a total waiste of my time. At least Pitch Black kept me on my toes and interested. This movie just made me feel Blah at the end of it. Talk about your let downers. I mean Starship Troopers was better than this. Personally I am thinking here that Mission to Mars could be better than this cause I don't see how anything could be worse than The Red Planet.

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Summary: Much better than expected
Review: I picked up an advanced copy of this DVD because it was inexpensive, fully expecting not to enjoy it much, because the comments I'd heard about it were so negative. I love SF movies, and am usually fairly critical, so I was VERY pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed this one a great deal. It was, by far, much better than the sappy "Mission To Mars", and I was thrilled to find it's even a film I would let my son watch. Considering the great pricing on this film, get it to enjoy on an evening when you're in the mood for some pleasantly entertaining special effects in space.

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Summary: Don't be scared off by this movie because of Mission To Mars
Review: Mission to Mars was ok, but it tried way to hard to have the people in it look like heros and alot of other stuff about the plot i didn't like, Red Planet was far better then it, If you like Val Kilmer you will like him in this or if you like space movies you would like this too, just don't think this is another Mission to Mars, its far better then that(if you see this movie, there is one part of this movie which i think is better then the whole mission to mars movie, i don't want to tell you to much about it if you haven't seen it so im just telling you its where you can only see the 3 guys backs)

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Summary: Mars has never looked worse.
Review: Oh, I'm sure there have been far worse movies out there about Mars, but of the ones I've seen (Total Recall and Mission to Mars plus this), Red Planet is perhaps the weakest. It contains characters whom we don't care the least bit about, a story that interminably goes nowhere, and action scenes that don't generate the least bit of excitement. Okay, so a mission to the red planet should be enthralling, but even if it's not we should at least get some good entertainment. Even that's not present in this film. In fact, when it does finally get interesting, the film just suddenly ends. Infuriating, to say the least. Good thing I only spent a dollar to watch this bomb.

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Summary: Entertaining Sci-Fi Movie!
Review: This movie was made to entertain people. It is not a brilliant movie by any means. But the concept in it are facinating. Putting moss and other plants on Mars to make Oxygen.

Its entertaining, and a fun movie. It will be good to play when a few friends are over. It doesn't require a lot of thinking, but it keeps you entertained. Buy it!

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Summary: I liked it, but i could have been much better.
Review: Red Planet, starring Val Kilmer, Terrance Stamp and Carrie Ann Moss, and directed by Anthony Hoffman, it's quite more smart than "Mission to Mars", and more entertainig,but still it fails:The perfomances were all great, but Ann Moss didn't did even a good perfomance, it was very lifeless, and she didn't looked an good as an astronaut, also I think that the movie was too easy, and fast, I think it should have more things in it, but still it's quite a great buy, and i give it four stars, just for the FX, most of the acting, music, entertainment value, and smartness.

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Summary: Não ofende
Review: Planeta vermelho tem grandes aspirações. Esta talvez seja sua pior falha. O filme não é um monte de efeitos passados em grande velocidade a fim de segurar uma história idiota. Tem um argumento básico bem interessante que torna sua realização medíocre bastante mais pecaminosa do que realmente é. Vale a pena ir ao cinema ver esta (para mim a primeira) abordagem do tema "viabilização técnica" da formação de condições mínimas para a habitabilidade de um novo planeta. Uma cena hilariante vale o filme: a expedição morrendo devido ao fim do oxigênio de seus trajes. No mais, a habitual "licenciosidade poética" de princípios científicos em um filme que - para quem gosta de cinema ou para quem gosta de sci-fi vale o ingresso. Claro que se você quer ver tiros, naves guerreiras e espadas de sabre, não perca seu tempo. Não alimente esperanças também de este ser um seminal ensaio estético-cultural da primeira década do milênio. O filme não tem o peso de um Alien ou Blade Runner mas é melhor que Matrix.

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Summary: It is bad.
Review: I'm sorry, I have to go with the bandwagon here. Red Planet is truly a bad movie. Not only does it feature a story that simply isn't very interesting, it also has lousy acting and direction. It just doesn't venture into anything interesting. I don't mind a plot that seems familiar, but when Red Planet rips off from uninteresting movies, you know that's a problem.

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Summary: Leave Mars finally alone!
Review: They said Mission to Mars was yawn inducing. Red-planet islethargy-inducing (even if I hadn't seen them both, I'd be of a verybad opinion of the latter pseudo-cosmic saga). The viewers get jerkedout of sleepy numbness only by absurdities taking place on the screen:the astronauts run out of air? Let it be air on Mars... suddenly (andcut that ... with growing algae etc - breathable atmosphere is notproduced over 50 years); karate-loving robot went berserk? Why is itchasing the weak and lame crew for some time, then disappears toreappear in the end of the movie? It could have chopped their headsoff in the very beginning. Hm, something else to entertain theaudience: the flesh-eating bugs appear and mistake one of theastronauts for algae, apparently. Plus lame dialogue, plus the pictureof the crew pissing with audible pleasure (what was it for? To showhow they enjoy life on Mars?), plus wooden and always blue-faced C-AMoss hanging around the ship and square-jawed emotionless VKilmer.Yes, the music was good, and some visuals as well, but aren'twe used to them?

And hey, have some respect: will finally somebodyout there in Holywood find a Russian who can teach you to write"entry" and "alarm" correctly, not that ridiculousabracadabra you're substituting for the Russian language. Don't forgetit's not the first movie Russians are saving Americans in!

In theend of the movie V Kilmer says "To hell with Mars"(well, heused a different word, but if I reproduce it here, Amazon won'tpublish this review). I'd say "To hell with this parody!".