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Summary: Is this serious?
Review: Pathetic, disappointing, and even embarrassing. These are just some of the many negative adjectives that come to mind when critiquing this film. The FX were not bad, but even great computer enhanced images could not make up for an incredibly weak script. I don't know who wrote this painful material, but I believe they are still in grade school. And worse than that, what foolish producer accepted this script as a film-worthy movie anyway? Did he actually think money would be made or an Oscar won with this "blockbuster"? When I went to see this film in the theatre, I don't think I was ever let down more than when this sorry sack of hot air began rolling. From the beginning interest was quickly lost...The only part even worthy of my interest was the evolution morph at the end of the film. And that part was shown, coincidently, in its entirety on the movie trailer. Do yourself a favor, Do not buy.
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Summary: Worst movie ever?
Review: Watching Mission to Mars was a unique experience. A huge audience amassed, eagerly anticipating the movie which had been promoted with enticing trailers, featured an all-star cast, and was helmed by Brian De Palma, director of such popular favorites as The Untouchables and Mission:Impossible. Excitement was in the air.Then the movie started. At first, the audience's reaction was one of stunned silence. Surely this couldn't be! These great talents of Hollywood had collaborate to create this-a work completely devoid of anything resembling entertainment?
Eventually, when it became clear that things were not going to improve, the audience began laughing-not at the movie's occasional attempts at comic relief, but at every "serious" moment. By the time tragedy struck one of the main characters halfway through, in the most unnecessarily prolonged death scene in the history of the movies, the audience was laughing in hysterical disbelief. At least, those of us who hadn't already walked out were.
Afterward, it was pandemonium. The crowd roared with frustration. There were cries of "I want my money back!" and "Worst movie ever!"
That reaction pretty much says it all.
Mission to Mars is a movie that goes for everything-laughs, tears, suspense, and awe-and achieves nothing, failing at every level. It may not be the worst movie ever, but let's just say that Santa Claus Conquers the Martians was a better movie about Mars.
This movie is one for the Hollywood history books-right next to Ishtar and Star Trek V.
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Summary: Anyone intersted in a class action suit against the Director
Review: When I saw this movie in a theatre, people were litterally laughing during it, and the guy sitting across from me told his wife it was the worst movie he had ever seen. He was being nice. This story rips off so many other movies, but it falls short of anything it aims for. It is one big commercial for corporate sponsors (Dr. Pepper being drunk on a rescue mission). The characters receive their moronic nature from the moronic writers. (A couple is more interested in romance and dancing on a rescue mission than paying attention to their tasks. No wonder they crash & burn.) The science is pathetic. The 'religious' elements are horrible and vain. (Man, of course, must have decended from Marsians.) If Hollywood puts out any more movies like this, we will have to apologize to the Martians. You will have more fun reading the Amazon reviews of this movie than you will watching this bomb. Get some popcorn, throw this movie in the fire, sit back and watch it burn.
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Summary: Wonderful sci-fi.
Review: Sure, it lacks kinetic action sequences, but who cares? Mission to Mars is a wonderful sci-fi drama that gives us suspense and awe in spades. Anyway, it's much better than it's given credit for.
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Summary: Nearly perfect
Review: DePalma was castigated by nearly all critics for this film. It was seen as derivative, hack work, tedious, with faxed-in performances, and a botched ending. The latter criticism may have legs. The ending, in parts, feels contrived and the CGI folks let the viewer down. No point spoiling it however. This film is a humanist epic, rolled out on a large scale, at a measured pace. Such qualities are hideously undervalued by today's moviegoing audience. There is genuine emotion in the characters' relationships, the acting is very fine and honest. And best of all, DePalma shows us that you really can dance to classic rock--in 0 gravity, that is.
Give Mission to Mars a shot. It lingers.
Jason R.
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Summary: a comedy at best!
Review: During the scene when they finally meet the alien inside the dome, I began laughing uncontrolably in the cinema. How stupid and fake did that alien look! Gary Sinse looked like he had a face lift and that distracted me too much to pay any attention to anything he was saying...
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Summary: Explore your emotions
Review: I love this flick and not sure why parents wouldn't buy it to watch with their kids as a feel-good movie. It's upbeat, has a usable plot, and great special effects in some areas. I rate and judge movies by several criteria, any one of which is enough to give it a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. M2M made it on pure emotion: I let my feelings take over, and loved the feeling I had at the end of the movie, which was hopeful, upbeat, good conclusion, and good buddy-ensemble flick. Face it, gang, almost all of the best lines have already been said, so almost everything can be trite or hackneyed in a flick. I guess I agree with Martin Scorsese's comments about movies: maybe you can learn something about yourself though the movie. Maybe not. Maybe you can also just feel good at the end of it.
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Summary: 2001: A Space Travesty
Review: Brain DePalma's film about an expedition to the red planet is one of the most staggeringly inept pieces of Hollywood flash-trash ever made. There are good points: the SFX is impressive, and Gary Sinise is his usual commanding self, but the whole thing gets totaly ruined by the Close Encounters rip-off ending. It starts off looking like it's gonna be a cool, action-packed sci fi adventure with all the trademark DePlama camera techs, but then we start to get the warning signs that something is very wrong; the cringe-worthy dialouge ("Let's light this candle!"), the "seen it before" action heroics and echoes of 2001 played badly. It had such great potential. But this is awful.
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Summary: A SUPERB MOVIE!
Review: Gary Sinise,Tim Robbins,Connie Nielson,Don Cheadle,and Jerry O'Connell star in this eye-popping science fiction adventure from director Brian De Palma(Carrie,Mission Impossible.)
The first manned mission to mars commanded by Luke Graham(Don Cheadle) lands safely on the red planet, but after a bizarre tragedy on the surface of Mars, a rescue mission has been launched to bring back any survivors. The rescue mission consists of Woody Blake(Tim Robbins),Jim McConnell(Gary Sinise),Terri Fisher(Connie Nielson),and Phil Ohlmyer(Jerry O'Connell). Director Brian De Palma Keeps the film moving at steady pace,and has some fantastic sequences throughout the movie, and the final 20 mins. are breathtaking! The acting is good too. This is a fantastic film and is definitely worth owning on DVD. The DVD has a crystal clear picture and has some good extras.
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Summary: An incredible waste of stellar talent
Review: One can only wonder why such talented performers as Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins and Don Cheadle accepted their roles in this film, although Sinise, as always, brings as much credibility as possible to his character. On plotline alone, it ranks right up there with "Them" and "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes." The depiction of life on Mars made me pine for Jar Jar Binks. I might have given it another star for cinematics had de Palma spent a lttle more time editing the blue screen composite shots. On the positive side, MacGyver would be pleased to know that a spaceship can be repaired with Dr. Pepper.
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