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Summary: Reality based and wonderfully done!!
Review: I would just like to point out that Red Planet is a better film than say- Mission to Mars, for a number of reasons. The main criteria in evaluating a film and if it stands the test of time is---is it believable? Frankly I found Mission to Mars a really enjoyable movie right up until the end... then it became unbelievable and the end did not match the rest of the movie. It was an almost jolting experience which then broke the spell that the movie was casting. This was a disappointment. Red planet however is more realistic, anyone who follows the space program knows that. I would also like to point out that I am a fan of Sci-fi- Star Trek, Star wars, Space 1999 and on and on. Each of these series had its spectacular but it was always grounded in reality. I do not mean to say that Red Planet is a perfect film, because that is always open to debate, but on a whole it was a great film. Sure Mission had elements of the spectacular, but they have to be grounded in fact or the movie does not come off. Red Planet is this and more and I found that the actors did a great job. You don't have to agree with me, but please don't condem the film just because It didn't have weird space aliens running around killing everyone.
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Summary: No good.
Review: Red Planet is a sci-fi thriller that goes nowhere. It has a decent cast, some impressive visuals, but little of anything else is worth even slightly mentioning. Let's go over the acting. Val Kilmer is okay, Tom Sizemore is actually pretty good, but Carrie-Ann Moss is lifeless. Not only that, I have yet to see what the hype over her is. She constantly has some sort of glazed look in her eyes and she's not nearly as good-looking as everybody says she is. I'd choose Connie Nielsen from Mission to Mars over her any day.
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Summary: One of last year's worst.
Review: Red Planet does something amazing. It manages to have almost non-stop action and yet still bore you at the same time. Why is that? Probably because of the lack of a real threat or the fact that you can't see a thing due to the poor lighting, or because of the blatant predictability as to who'll live or who won't. As for cliches, the movie has an abundance of them. Not only in dialogue ("If you won't do it for him, do it for me") but in the way all the situations are played out. So many scenes are trite and banal, especially in the end when the girl saves the boy, and the boy gets the girl. This is the kind of romance that's rather perfunctory because it's hard to believe it could even formulate in the first place. As I think of it now, not only is Mission to Mars 100 times better than this movie, but I also thought Battlefield Earth was even better. At least that film could be enjoyed in a campy manner.
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Summary: Excellent Mars Addition
Review: As I read the other viewers reviews of this film, one word keeps popping up. Cliches. I'm afraid I have to disagree. Considering the number of Mars films out there, it would be hard to do a thing without someone being able to link it to another film. I suppose some would accuse them of copying other plots by having a human being walk on the surface. Well, so be it. I see things differently. I'm not after calculus. For me, it's about entertainment. Not mindless entertainment, to be sure, but I certainly follow the "suspend your disbelief for a few hours" school of thought. I thought this was a blast. Carrie Anne Moss, who, although cool in the Matrix, didn't do anything for me physically, I find absolutely gorgeous in this. Val Kilmer did a great job as well. AMEE was a very novel addition as well. All in all, an excellent space romp.
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Summary: Go To Mars Instead!
Review: Not a sound. Not a warning. Not a chance. Not alone. Mission Commander Kate Bowman (Carrie-Anne Moss) is the pilot and commander of the most important mission of the 21st century: saving the human race. It's 2050, Earth is dying, and colonizing Mars is the only alternative to obliteration. Bowman and her crew have made this journey to investigate what went wrong with the malfunctioning Mars Terraforming project, and to repair it. But what happens when they get there is far more terrifying than anyone could have guessed: a crash-landing leaves them without scientific, communication or escape equipment; and causes their military mapping and exploration robot to malfunction into an enemy. But as the landing team explores the harsh new planet desperately seeking a way out, they make the most baffling discovery of them all: Mars may be barren, but it's not uninhabited
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Summary: Someone should wave smelly underwear at this flick
Review: This is an incredible abomination of work the plot is total crap, the director must be stupid to make this movie and Val Kilmer is just so crappy he should be shot for making this. I WAS EXPECTING BETTER. IT'S A TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY AND TIME. I hate this movie and I will never get it because it's total BS! Benjamin Bratt was a brat in this movie and Tom Sizemore's size was about a baby.
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Summary: argee with most
Review: This movie was better then the previous mission to mars.That was not hard to do. The story was there,but could of used a bit more work.The releif, was that it was not bogged down with tech mubojubo-that no one but the writer knows what 's going on(as appearent in most space movies these days).The fx(although kind few)and val I think carry the movie to the three mark(barely).the biggest fault is the air on mars thing...and the bugs.Well who knows maybe theres a new sci-discovery thatthe movie bizz only knows about...lol .Go see it (if still near you)or deffently rent it if you like any memeber ofthe cast or are into space expo-movies.It's good for a couple veiwings.
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Summary: Has some good moments but misses the mark.
Review: Yes. Red Planet does have a better setting and cast then Mission to Mars did, but the story and how the director made the movie really do drag the whole project down. Red Planet is the science fiction film that had promise but only partly delivers the goods. On the plus side, the acting done by Val Kilmer and Carrie Ann Moss is very good, but on the whole the movie is not as good as it could have been. Ray Bradbury;s the Martian Chronicles is still the best story ever done about people living on Mars, and it was made as a decent TV movie in the early 1980's.
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Summary: Could'a been a contender
Review: Carrie-Ann Moss almost carries this one off alone. With more than one reference to other (and better) sci-fi flicks, Red Planet beats Mission to Mars but doesn't have the plot in the right place or at the right time. Far too much exposition takes the place of character development, the thrills are contrived and hardly present at all and the plot is shot through with holes. Moss manages to stay above it and that, combined with some good science and decent photography make for a watchable 'coulda been.'
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Summary: solid movie
Review: Even though this movie doesn't break any new ground, it still is an entertaining sci-fi movie. Special effects are excellent, solid casts, & execution of the plots isn't as clumsy as M2M. The storyline is simple enough, just like any other sci-fi movies: a team of intelligent people are sent somewhere to investigate something, but halfway thru, something goes awfully wrong. Some people got killed along the way, some emerge as hero(es) &/or getting their girls along the way, new discovery , best of friends become the worst of foes, mission accomplished & everybody live happily ever after. For a quiet nite viewing, don't miss Red Planet but if you decide not to watch it, you haven't missed much.
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