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Summary: Great actors, bad acting, bad script, BAD, BAD, BAD
Review: Yipes, I feel as thought a part of my life was stolen by this awful film. How can you put so many great actors in a movie and make them look so bad? I dont know. This movie made me want to watch it to the end just to see how bad it was going to be. The metallic "alien" at the end had me laughing out loud. This could have been a great movie if it was done by a Lucas or a Spielberg, or even myself. To put it harshly I would rather sit through Yentl, Mary Rielly, Ishtar and and a five day insurance seminar than be subjected to this film again. Luckily I never had to pay to see it. Sorry dePalma.
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Summary: Something Was Missing
Review: As a lover of science fiction for years, this movie left me a little disappointed. It had the potential to be a spectacular movie, but the lack of imagination from the writer left you with the feeling that something was missing, there should have been more. The talent of the actors was wasted on what could only be called stupid and boring dialogue.
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Summary: Beautifully crafted cinema.
Review: Beautifully crafted cinema of exploration, love, sacrifice and discovery.This film will not satisfy the hormone sotted, immature male minds in today's audiences, whose paramount desire is sex and violence depicted mostly by the tedium of chases and more recently, flying bodies pummeling and kicking each other. For the rest of us above the age of consent, director Brian De Palma has created a precious return to the earlier and more enduring cinematic values of humanity. The story is a quantum leap above earlier forms of the genre. A good cast delivers top, professional performances in the rendering of the story. It is supported and enhanced by an excellent music score and realized in seamless compositing between traditional art, computer graphics and photography. The story begins at the level of normal interchange between the explorers who are well represented. As we move along with the crew into the exploration of the most interesting planetary neighbor in our solar system, we encounter love, sacrifice, and valor. The result is the achievement of an uplifting and inspiring cinema experience. This film depicts an erudite theory that is growing in popularity among many of the scientists of its time. This is so especially with the most recent discoveries, revealed after the film was made, of the evidence of water on Mars in long past epochs. The film culminates in the glory of incomparable possibilities. For those of us who saw the film on the large screen and went on to acquire the DVD, it is well worth while in not just revisiting this finely made film. The DVD includes a wonderful documentary on the background construction of the movie.
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Summary: A Realistic "Mars" Film!!
Review: This movie comes from the director of "Mission:Impossible", another great movie. I found this movie a bit slow in the beginning with the relationships being established but once we knew all the characters and their life histories, we were rocketed to "Mars"and the movie took off fast. It's from this point on that the movie is non-stop action and surprise. The year is 2020 and it's the first manned mission to Mars. The special effects are so well-done that you feel you're actually on the red planet. You won't believe what the crew discovers, it will fascinate you. I thought the ending was spectacular. There are many extra's on this DVD, including Visual Effects Analyses, and a Documentary on the "Visions of Mars" that are great. I have been waiting for a "Mars" movie that was worth watching for a long time. That movie has finally arrived!!
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Summary: Abhorrent!
Review: This was the first DVD I bought and it just may well be my last. To begin with, I was shocked and frustrated by the picture quality. I have heard so many good things about these DVD's but there were black bars blocking out the top and bottom of my TV screen through the whole movie! What's going on with that? Can someone please explain? I want to see the whole picture! Then there were the actors: Disney, you should be ashamed. I know that Tim Robbins is supposed to be a great actor, and I admit he was pretty funny in that movie "Nothing To Lose" with Martin Lawrence (not reccommended for children, btw), but as the man responsible for such liberal propaganda films as "Bob Roberts" and "Cradle Will Rock" he has no place in family oriented fare like this. I, for one, do not want my children unwittingly exposed to this man. Finally, while there was a bit of carnality displayed between two married characters, most of this film was at least pretty safe entertainment. One sequence in the middle was especially suspenseful.... The tension was palpable in my den as my family and I watched this scene. I'm telling you, this was the most gripping scene in a film since Harrison Ford jumped from the dam in "The Fugitive." Sadly, I watched in horror, and told my wife to take the kids out of the room, when the big "conclusion" came. Those Baptists were right about Disney...and I never should've given them another chance after "Priest." The first 2/3 of this movie was about working together and about space exploration, while the end was just an athiest manifesto. Completely appalling and unforgivable. We are expected to weep along with a virtual-reality alien who tells his sad tale of a dying planet and the subsequent colonization of earth. Well, brother, let me tell you I've read the bible and it didn't say anything about aliens from Mars. I'm sorry to spoil this movie for anyone who hasn't seen it, but I really think that the majority of Christian viewers need to be warned against it. Ignore what you've heard! This is not a good movie, and it will offend most of you good people out there. To the people at Disney: you should be ashamed of yourselves. I guess that Katzenberg guy has a pretty good head on his shoulders, since he left Disney's ... fold and made the wholesome film "Prince of Egypt" for Dreamworks. At least some of those Babylon (sorry, "Hollywood") film producers don't have one foot in the lake of fire, if you know what I mean. "Mission To Mars" does have good music, and Gary Sinese, but if you know what's good for you, you should not buy this movie. (I guess no one understood that this was meant as a joke. My point is that this film is so awful you can hate it for a million reasons. You can take 15 completely different people and they'll give you enough information to fill up a 768 page book on the utter atrocity that is "Mission To Mars." I hate to be this bitter but obviously I felt pretty angry after sitting through it. Maybe my review wasn't very funny. Sorry.)
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Summary: Simply the Worst Movie I've Ever Seen
Review: It is rare to find a movie that is not just bad, but repellent, on so many levels. I selfishly omit details to spare myself the pain of remembering. Stay away. Far, far away.
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Summary: Do not see this film!
Review: This movie is terrible. Stay away from it, please! Predictable plot, atrocious performances (by good actors; the script is that bad), one-dimensional characterization; overall bad, highly derivative storytelling. I often disagree with prevailing mainstream movie criticism, but not on this one...this movie was a big enough waste of time and money before anyone saw it; don't was YOUR time and money, too! If only I could have given it zero stars...
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Summary: This movie was not released, it escaped
Review: One of the worst movies of all time. Bad script, bad dialogue, bad acting. The only thing good was "the end"-no more suffering.
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Summary: Thumbs Up
Review: Personally, I thought this was an amazing movie. It had everything a movie needs... the story line was pretty col, the DVD effects were quality, and i just thought it was number on! i would reccomend it to anyone!
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Summary: Re-arranging my sock drawer was more interesting
Review: This movie was terrible. It should have been renamed "The Young and the Restless going to Mars." The director seemed intent on shoving down your throat that Gary Sinise is depressed over the loss of his wife. He spends about 10 minutes of film, in one scene alone, making you watch Gary viewing home movies of his desceased wife. So it becomes very obvious that something unique is going to happen to his character during the film. Then he spends another large block of time showing you a family BBQ where you meet alot of the crew members. Then he spends more time in the over drawn out scene where the husband of one of the characters dies out in space. It looks like that part was put in just to give the actess, playing the wife, her "big" scene in the movie. On and on and on. The mystery of Mars gets lost while the story focuses on the lame and very routine characters. There's nothing remotely interesting about any of them. Don't expect anything even remotely resembling 2001: Space Odyssey. Only the very end of the film has anything worth watching. I notice alot of viewers making comments about its great visuals. Who cares. Godzilla had great visuals too and it was horrible. I would rather have alot less visuals and more interesting scripts.
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