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Summary: Best Science Fiction film in two decades
Review: Val Kilmer stars in this thriling story about Earth's last hope, the red planet of Mars. Co-starring the Matrix's Carrie-Anne Moss, this film is at the forefront of all science fiction films today. A story of human sacrifice, a team of American astronaughts are sent to discover why a crop of artificial algea had mysteriously disapeared from the face of Mars. Eventually discovereing the true natur eof the planet of Mars, Kilmer and comrades are forced to make dangerous decisions regarding the future of the people of Earth and their own lives. A film that definetly out-performs its pathetic advesary " Mission to Mars" , this film is a good sci-fi story.
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Summary: 'Red Planet' Never Quite Flies...
Review: The second of the 'Mars' movies of 2000 (preceded by 'Mission to Mars', and to be followed by 'Ghosts of Mars'), 'Red Planet' has a top-notch cast in a cliched rehash of elements better utilized in other films. This is a shame, as SF literature about Mars is so rich and varied, you wish someone would adapt a classic novel, instead of 'creating' such derivative nonsense!Earth of 2025 is on the brink of ecological suicide; in an effort to provide a new home for humans, unmanned spaceships have begun terraforming Mars, sending oxygen-producing algae, as well as creating a habitat for a manned mission. Finally, a massive space-constructed craft is dispatched to complete the work. The crew consists of efficient and beautiful commander Carrie-Anne Moss; hunky but arrogant pilot Benjamin Bratt; sensitive, philosophizing doctor Terence Stamp; opportunistic, wise-cracking bio-engineer Tom Sizemore; over-sensitive dweeb technician Simon Baker, and sweet nonconformist 'mechanic' Val Kilmer. Rounding out the crew is a robot loaned by the Marines, nicknamed AMEE, which looks like a rejected 'attack-bot' design from 'Robocop', to perform surface experiments. If these characters all sound like stereotypes...they are! When a solar flare seriously damages the spacecraft, in low-Mars orbit, Moss is forced to send the crew down to the surface, while she attempts to save the mothership. Then the problems REALLY begin! Without giving away any of the spoilers, let me just say that you'll see plot elements lifted from 'Event Horizon', '2001', 'Outland', 'Terminator', 'Pitch Black', and many other SF films. The sad thing is, 'Red Planet' doesn't improve on these elements, it simply rehashs them! Even the planet's surface recreates the 'Death Valley with a red filter' look of 'Robinson Crusoe on Mars', (it was the one element in 'Mission to Mars' that impressed me; Mars LOOKED unearthly!). I hate knocking this film; I'm a big Val Kilmer fan, and really had high hopes that this would be a big hit for him. But I have to be honest; 'Red Planet' should have been much better! Sorry, Val!
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Summary: a smart and amazing voyage!!
Review: Red Planet is an emmencely entertaining movie. It has a great plot and great acting. Its effects are good too. Red Planet is about a team sent to try and colonize Mars bu they find somethings that are not right. You may remember a similar movie Mission to Mars(which was good) but these two movies part ways beyond which planet they are foing to. Red Planet isa much better film. it's suspenseful, smart, and stylish. It introduces the characters in an interesting way and builds them from there. Val Kilmer and Carrie Ann Moss(the matriz) are superb. Tom Silmore(saving private ryan) also grabs your attention. I love how they showed the connection between Kilmer's and Moss's characters. I can't give the plot away but the team does have a robot chasing them. Overall, Red Planet is a great film that any sci-fi fan will want to see again and anyone else will enjoy the movie a lot. Red Planet is one of the best sci-fi movies in years becasue its not mindless action so everyone will go to it but has a smart plot that any sci-fi fan will love. I reccommend this movie to anyone who eants to see a truly amazing film.
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Summary: A golden opportunity wasted.
Review: I'm a huge science fiction fan. Always have been. And I've always loved stories set on Mars, for some reason. So why can't Hollywood make a decent movie about Mars? The latest flaccid attempt, "Red Planet", is a joyless ride through outer space that brings out every cliche in the book and pastes them together with little coherence or seeming forethought. Characters get into fights for no reason; the plot is told through flashbacks and voiceovers (the lazy man's way to make a film--why bother having people act when you can simply TELL the audience what's going on?); and the most basic laws of science are simply ignored. Here's a note to the director and screenwriters: flashbacks are not necessary to tell a good story. If you'd simply shown the scenes in order, you'd have made the characters ten times more interesting. The story, such as it is, goes like this: In the year 2057, humanity has at last overtaxed the natural resources on Earth. Desperate for a solution, we seed Mars with genetically taiored algae to generate oxygen so we can colonize the planet. Suddenly, our remote monitoring of Mars goes quiet, so a manned mission has to be assembled to check it out. Commanded by Navy Commander Kate Bowman (Carrie-Anne Moss), things go wrong for the crew of Mars-1 almost as soon as they enter Mars orbit. A freakish solar flare fries the ship's electronics, forcing an emergency evacuation to the surface of Mars. This sequence is terrific and exciting, especially the crash landing, which had members of the audience gasping for breath. Things get worse for Our Heroes, though; the ship's self-directed robot navigator, AMEE, has gone into lethal "military mode" and begins stalking the stranded astronauts, picking them off one by one. Unfortunately, this movie goes straight downhill from there. Despite the presence of stars like Val Kilmer (as self-described "space janitor" Robby Gallagher and Terence Stamp as scientist-cum-philospher Dr. Chantilas, "Red Planet" goes nowhere fast. When one of the astronauts is critically injured during the landing and insists on being left behind, do any of the others try to talk him out of it? Do they even stand around and say goodbye to him? With the exception of Val Kilmer's Gallagher, the answer is nope--they just take off. Yeah, right--you just spent the last six months with this guy and you're just going to bail on him. Some friends. By the time the final credits rolled, I found myself just not caring about the stupid, cliched plot or the stock characters or the numbskull "science" that a fifth-grader could refute. As an example, the film's explanation for what happened to the algae is in direct contradiction with even basic biochemistry. Didn't the filmmakers care? 'Cause it sure looks like they didn't even try. As Andy Griffith used to say, "I'm mighty disappointed." -terry-
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Summary: Very Forgetable
Review: I went to see Red Planet today expecting to see an entertaining sci-fi movie.(especially after seeing Mission to Mars which was not very good)I was disappointed.The plot was rather boring,the musical score wasn't very good,and although the special effects weren't too bad,they could have been better.This is one of Val Kilmer's weaker films,and after Carrie-Anne Moss's performance in The Matrix,I expected more from her.Terence Stamp's role was a waste,too.The rest of the cast wasn't very impressive either.Overall,the movie wasn't awful,but it wasn't very good either.Maybe someday someone will make a good movie about Mars.
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Summary: Entertaining sci-fi flick!
Review: There are times in this movie that really seem to drag on, but overall I really liked this movie. There are numerous sequences which I thought were great. One inparticular is when the ships crew tries to land on Mars. This part of the movie was great. Amazing special effects throughout this movie, especially of the robot AMEE. The movie started off slow, and I was a little worried that it would turn out to be much worse that its earlier mars conterpart, Mission to Mars, which I really didn't think was all that bad. This movie is quite a bit better than M2M. It has more action, suspense and a better story. Red Planet could of used some character building scenes earlier in the movie, rather than a commentary by one of the actors, but it turned out to be not that bad. The ending could of used some work as well. I would recommend anyone to check this out. Its a fun ride.
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Summary: A golden opportunity wasted.
Review: I'm a huge science fiction fan. Always have been. And I've always loved stories set on Mars, for some reason. So why can't Hollywood make a decent movie about Mars? The latest flaccid attempt, "Red Planet", is a joyless ride through outer space that brings out every cliche in the book and pastes them together with little coherence or seeming forethought. Characters get into fights for no reason; the plot is told through flashbacks and voiceovers (the lazy man's way to make a film--why bother having people act when you can simply TELL the audience what's going on?); and the most basic laws of science are simply ignored. Here's a note to the director and screenwriters: flashbacks are not necessary to tell a good story. If you'd simply shown the scenes in order, you'd have made the characters ten times more interesting. The story, such as it is, goes like this: In the year 2057, humanity has at last overtaxed the natural resources on Earth. Desperate for a solution, we seed Mars with genetically taiored algae to generate oxygen so we can colonize the planet. Suddenly, our remote monitoring of Mars goes quiet, so a manned mission has to be assembled to check it out. Commanded by Navy Commander Kate Bowman (Carrie-Anne Moss), things go wrong for the crew of Mars-1 almost as soon as they enter Mars orbit. A freakish solar flare fries the ship's electronics, forcing an emergency evacuation to the surface of Mars. This sequence is terrific and exciting, especially the crash landing, which had members of the audience gasping for breath. Things get worse for Our Heroes, though; the ship's self-directed robot navigator, AMEE, has gone into lethal "military mode" and begins stalking the stranded astronauts, picking them off one by one. Unfortunately, this movie goes straight downhill from there. Despite the presence of stars like Val Kilmer (as self-described "space janitor" Robby Gallagher and Terence Stamp as scientist-cum-philospher Dr. Chantilas, "Red Planet" goes nowhere fast. When one of the astronauts is critically injured during the landing and insists on being left behind, do any of the others try to talk him out of it? Do they even stand around and say goodbye to him? With the exception of Val Kilmer's Gallagher, the answer is nope--they just take off. Yeah, right--you just spent the last six months with this guy and you're just going to bail on him. Some friends. By the time the final credits rolled, I found myself just not caring about the stupid, cliched plot or the stock characters or the numbskull "science" that a fifth-grader could refute. As an example, the film's explanation for what happened to the algae is in direct contradiction with even basic biochemistry. Didn't the filmmakers care? 'Cause it sure looks like they didn't even try. As Andy Griffith used to say, "I'm mighty disappointed." -terry-
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Summary: MAROONED AND MAUDLIN
Review: RED PLANET has some visually stunning effects, and that's about it. The plot is so contrived and incoherent, one wonders what the movie is all about. The bookend narration by Carrie Ann Moss sounds like something a high schooler would write in a creative writing class, and the performances are all average. Not one performance stands out, and that's a shame with such a great cast, although I've failed to see how Val Kilmer has even sustained a career. Benjamin Bratt is annoying; Terence Stamp is like Peter Cushing on Valium, and the usually impressive Simon Baker (TV's Guardian) is saddled with a thankless role as a "traitor" without any underlying premise.
RED PLANET is ultimately a yawner. It seems like it takes forever to get to the movie's point, and the Martian bugs are neat, but what in the heck are they doing?
Visual eye candy but a lightweight concoction otherwise.
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Summary: There's life on the red planet after all
Review: Val Kilmer (Robby Gallagher) and Carrie-Anne Moss (Cmdr. Kate Bowman)star in this futuristic sci-fi thriller "Red Planet". When I sat down to watch this Dvd I was not expecting much but was pleasantly surprised. I'm a big fan of Val Kilmer, (at least in the Ghost and the Darkness and I also thought he made an excellent Batman). Red Planet is one of the better sci-fi films of the last few years and held my attention from start to finish. Red Planet tells the story of astronauts going to Mars in order to collonize it. The adventure really begins when there robot AIMEE goes postal. It's a very entertaining film that also boast some interesting dialogue on philisophical issues. Also stars Benjamin Bratt, Tom Sizemore and the always interesting Terance Stamp. Very good special effects and and interesting screenplay make this a worthwhile movie to watch. Thanks for reading.
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Summary: Surprisingly, not a dissappointment!
Review: This movie is one of the best Science-Fiction movies ever! A wonderful performance from all of the actors and a great plot are definately a plus for this film. It has many other elements as well, like Action, Thrills and Mystery. Even if you're not he biggest sc-fi fan, I guarantee you'll love this film. I don't see why other people rate this movie so lowly. It's awesome! Great special effects too.
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