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Summary: Good film that works, but DON'T buy it.
Review: The other reviews here tell the story. You may or may not like the story. The DVD is well done BUT it is programed so you must watch 10 min of junk up front. It locks my player (RCA) so it will not even respond to the stop button. The only way I can stop it is to eject it.
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Summary: The return of spiritual and cerebral science fiction
Review: I honestly don't know why critics were slamming on this film. Let alone some members of the general public. To me, Mission To Mars was an excellent science fiction adventure, with a good cast, a solid plot, excellent special effects, wonderous set design, good acting, good costumes, and a lot of science fact to the film. Indeed, the best movie that Brian DePalma made. So what if he borrowed heavily from some films like 2001, Close Encounters, and Contact. George Lucas also borrowed heavily for The Star Wars Saga. What's the big deal? Now granted the soundtrack was not so good until the end, where astronaut Jim McConnell (played wonderfully by Gary Sinise) is taken into the Martian Spacecraft. Nevertheless, the film was a wonderful picture. Brilliantly executed, and depicted how a manned mission to the fourth planet of the solar system could actually happen in 20 years. Most of all, it was spiritual and cerebral science fiction. Something we don't hardly see anymore. The last time we saw something like this was in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Journey To The Far Side Of the Sun, Close Encounters, and Contact. Not all science fiction has to be shoot them up and blow them up types. This is, by far, Gary Sinise's best role since Stephen King's The Stand and Ron Howard's Apollo 13. Tim Robbins also did a remarkable job, too. His character's death in the middle of the movie was very shocking and unexpected to say the least. A real plot twist like The Sixth Sense and What Lies Beneath. Overall, this movie was brilliant a thousand times over. Check it out. It's worth watching.
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Summary: If only I were able to give 0 or negative stars.....
Review: THE absolute worst movie I have seen in 10 years -- I went in with the lofty expectation of a 2001 caliber film and left saddened that I had just wasted 2 unrecoverable hours of my life. Do NOT under any circumstance agree to buy or see this movie, unless you want to watch simply for the pure enjoyment of ridiculing this film.
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Summary: duuuummmmb
Review: This movie cant decide if it's a horror movie (at the beginning) or a 2001 remake (near the end). It plays like a tv movie, and it's quite silly at times. It seems like they took two Mars movies, stuck them together and tried to come up with another one. Avoid this movie if you enjoy sci-fi.
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Summary: the red zone
Review: I think this film is cool and spectacular but it's very predictable too,not at all thrilling but still good.
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Summary: One of the worst movies ever made
Review: Do not buy this movie do not rent this movie and most importand do not watch this movie. This was one of the worst movies ever made. The only thing that could possibly save this DVD would be if it were blank. This movie is destined to become a favorite of Mystery Science Theater or USA late night BAD movies.
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Summary: And then there was light...
Review: This movie, although undeniably ridiculous, is still entertaining... Somewhat reminiscent of an old, B-film Sci-fi movie. To start out the movie looks a whole lot like Apollo 13, with the party and everyone talking about space, the immature (Yes, there's an immature astronaut) is trying to get the girl and so forth. Now I will stand in correction if the need arises, because I, personally don't know any astronauts, and have never been to an astronaut party right before they leave to go to Mars/Moon (It doesn't matter). But, not to generalize, I will say that not ALL astronauts are like that. Gary Sinise pulls up in his 2020 car, which looks a whole lot like a typical "future car" usually depicted in such films. One may ask oneself, "Aren't there supposed to be flying cars by then?" The answer is no. It's only 2020, a year in which someone (no doubt NASA) found it possible to make fabric airtight; but flying cars, or even good car designers are not humanly possible. The second Gary pulls in (He has a more clever name for the movie but it escapes my mind at the moment) one can tell he's had the hangover of his life that morning and has, sometimes during the course of the afternoon, been hit by a truck. This assumption turns out to be groundless as he's like this throughout the whole movie. What happens next is beyond me: Somehow one of the partygoers and a whole slew of Russians gets up on Mars, which takes six months to get to, and consequently die. No, I'm just kidding, only the Russians die and the partygoer lives. Tim Robbins and Gary Sinise are on the much-anticipated Big Space Thing Out In Space Where There's Simulated Gravity And Other Such Oddities And You Can See Me On Official NASA Movies And Bad Sci-fi Films, and get a choppy, yet strangely disturbing video-feed from Mars, with a bloodied guy saying something about "... They're all dead. (Static) It, the face, it (Static) dead. Help... (Static) So the guy says, that's okay. We're not aloud back in the dinner, either! Ha ha ha ha... Get it? Oh and by (Static) great party." Of course in circumstances like these most NASA officials will just say the heck with all other space-type stuff that needs to be done, sends out a bunch of aging people who haven't trained for a while out to space to rescue their "buddy." So, they set out on their mission, their mission to Mars one might say. They do eventually get to Mars, not without some mishaps, though, as they ride down in a satellite. Do to small meteorite problems, in which Gary tries to fix hemlet-less when there's a hull breach, which means no oxygen (Those crazy astronauts). Anyhow, to make a long, boring story short the spaceship that they are supposed to land on Mars, fixing aside, blows up. In a time like this one must ask himself the question, "Do I die or jump out the door and hope to God I can catch a satellite and get in it?" So they tie themselves together and jump out into space. They do catch the satellite, not without mishap though, the key reason that I watched the movie went and "overshot" the satellite and died. No reason to emote, no one else does. In the end they land all right, and everything is hunky-dory, they meet up with the man who sent the massage all those months back in an airtight fabric greenhouse. (Don't ask, they're astronauts in the year 2020... They KNOW you couldn't compress fabric in the year 2000, but, darn it! This is the future!) It turns out the whole hootenanny was just that face on Mars that we see in pictures, is actually a face on Mars, on under sand. They get into the face via complicated procedures that Oxygen-boy figured out: There was a white room. Gary, taking the initiative in taking off his helmet, because his wife died earlier (Oh, you mean I didn't mention that?). When they all took their helmets off, another door opened and what was there is mind-blowing!!! The planets. The planets put on a play showing how Mars was once THE green planet in the solar system, but was struck by a meteorite, causing all the aliens inhabiting it to go off into space. But one stayed behind. At this point they get that feeling on their necks that an alien that looks like a mix between Mr. Burns on The Simpsons and Alan Alda is behind them. Their neck instincts were right. There was an alien, a gentle alien, who told them how life started on earth: Him/Her/It! Anyhow, after this touching revelation they really don't know what to say and head back to the shuttle so they can go back to earth. But one astronaut stays behind (Take a wild guess as to which one) and goes with the alien to its Main planet. It ends. So, with all of the audience's deepest questions about life answered, we shut off the VCR and just stare at the screen for a while until our brains reboot. Don't watch this movie if you're looking for an actual thought-provoking experience, watch it for the entertainment value, which is worth about as much as you paid to rent it.
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Summary: Boy, was this stupid!
Review: This is not so much a film as a collection of scenes strung together with subtitles like "Eighteen Months Later..." The result is a disjointed picture that lurches to a finish that had me laughing to myself. This is the stupidest sci-fi ending since "Independence Day" -- without that picture's action to distract you. My two teenagers, by the way, both said at the end, "That was really dumb." 'Nuff said.
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Summary: 2001: A Space Odyssey - the complete idiots guide
Review: It's hard for me to watch actors whom I otherwise respect, saddled with such a terrible screenplay. In a general sense, all the elements of "2001: A Space Odyssey" are present, repackaged into an ultra-simplified story. The movie takes forever to establish the characters with their attendant humaness and personalities... but the personalities do not play into the story at all; it's just filler. The physics ofweightless vacuum were just plain embarrassing -- giving sciencefiction a black eye. I haven't seen a movie this bad in a very long time. I almost didn't finish watching it. I'll never watch it a second time.
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Summary: Wow! I didn't know movies could get this bad!
Review: I won't even retread the ground covered by previous reviewers here, except to say that pretty much every "bad" review is right-on. Script issues aside, I think this movie could have been greatly aided if most of the actors had tried acting. It would have brightened up many scenes to see some change of facial expression, or break in the monotone from otherwise excellent actors. I'm not sure if the fault there lies with the directing or the writing, but I feel sorry for the careers of the actors involved. Don Cheadle did his best to give this film a bit of emotion, but his efforts were wasted. To its credit, some of the visual effects are kind of neat; not even close to breathtaking, but neat. The famed sand whorl that devours astronauts was a great effect, but even it couldn't carry that scene, let alone the entire movie. The effects sequence at the end looked like something out of SeaQuest...
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