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Summary: Words do not describe how bad this movie is.
Review: It's not even a mission to Mars. 10 minutes into the movie, they are on Mars, then a rescue mission to save the people. Bad acting, bad plot, bad story, bad ending. Some scenes try to pull on heart-strings, but only end up turning my gut. Avoid at all costs.
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Summary: Goes For 2001 And Gets 2010! Not Bad Yet Not Great!
Review: To start with, Please do not compare to 2001 A Space Odyssey and you may [judging to your taste in movies] love/hate/ or dont care about this movie!! I chose option 1!After the cheesy barbecue scene, preparing for the mission, we are thrusted into space where Luke Graham [Don Cheadle] and 3 other astronauts are investigating the mysterious titular planet when 3 astronauts are killed by a giant sand/dust storm revealing a giant female face on the planet [and believe me....we didn't put it there!!] leaving Luke the soul survivor.Meanwhile on the spacestation where our 'hero's' are namely Jim [Gary Sinese],Woody [Tim Robbins],His wife Terri [Connie Neilsen, much better here than in Gladiator] and Phil [Jerry O'Connell] receive a last cryptic message from Luke saying all the crew are dead.These 4 make up the rescue mission to save Luke [also on the rescue mission there is ingenious advertising for Dr Pepper and M&Ms].The ship loses power and before you know it....TIME TO ABANDON SHIP!The crew leave the ship and head to a space pod to land on Mars.The crew make it, all except for Woody who loses his landing and meets his demise.Once on Mars they meet up with Luke who has gone senile after one year on the planet alone......or has he been alone on the planet Mars?They also investigate the giant 'head' where they send sound patterns where....they make contact with another life form.Not human yet 'it' has answers to questions people have only dreamed of...... As you may of heard, this movie has been critically panned by ALL the critics yet you must ignore these reviews to find a truly awesome film.As my review states,dont compare to 2001,yet people WILL compare and contrast and grow to despise this film which is a true shame as many people would enjoy this brilliant sci-fi 'epic' of grand preportions!! 4 out of 5
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Summary: If you like 2001 and Close Encounters ....
Review: Mission to Mars created for me the same sense of wonder I felt when 2001: a space odyssey first screened in Cinerama. Mission to Mars is not an action film, it's an event film. The film only gets 4 stars, because the ending is very much like the end of Close Encounters (see MTM, I don't want to give away the story). I cared about the astronauts, Mars seemed real and the craft design was as real as what Kubrick did 30 years before. The realism is like Apollo 13 with a Close Encounters and The Abyss style of ending. Excellent DTS sound on DVD. Bythe way I saw the film in Sony Dynamic Digital and there's only one scene on the Space Station where the camara rotates around all the actors that 8 channels made a difference over 6 channels at home.
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Summary: 2001 Ripoff with a poor story line
Review: I only gave this movie two stars because of the audio and video transfer. I had pre-ordered this movie after all the hype I had heard about it and I was sadly disappointed after watching it. They seemed to have combined 2001 and the Lost in Space movie story together. Needless to say this did not work well and at the end I felt like I was watching an easy to explain version of 2001. The beauty of 2001 of course was that no explanation was given and the audience was left to figure out the ending on their own which even today viewers have different opinions of what the ending meant. Mission to Mars tried to explain everything so an elementary school child would understand it. I felt insulted by this and therefore I would strongly suggest either renting this DVD or missing it altogether. Get the new 2001 I am sure you will enjoy it more.
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Summary: An under-rated masterpiece !
Review: I'm somewhat perplexed with people's attitude to this film - it seems to have attracted an extremely negative response for no obvious reason. No - It's not a blam-blam Sci-Fi action blockbuster, but instead it's a film which portrays and depicts the emotion, heatbreak and loss that can inevitably occur when venturing into the unknown. M2M also shows us the remarkable concept of possibility thinking - something most people have yet to master. These themes are something not often seen in Sci-Fi, but M2M presents us with the best elements of 2001 & contact with a mystical presence. Granted, the film moves slowly, but in a deliberate and absorbing way. I can't imagine anyone comprehending this film who is not enlightened enough to see the true message. A timeless masterpiece.
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Summary: BEATS ALL SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS!
Review: First Apollo 13, then Alien Resurection and Armageddon, all with no doubt classics, but the one that stands out above all, is deffinately Mission to Mars. So what makes this movie the best science-fiction film you have ever seen? A perfectly selected cast, to make this hit film, one to remember. After an attempted mission fails to complete the journey to Mars, another team is sent to investigate the terrible disaster and resuce the survivors, if there are any. The power of the music, specially written by Ennio Morricone for the feature, the constant action holding you at the edge of your seat, the sadeness of losing love will draw tears to your eyes and will make you look from a different perspective on the 'life out there'. Deffinately a must to be seen.
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Summary: Very large, very expensive, cheeseball
Review: A low budget B movie can be good for a few kicks BECAUSE it's so bad, and everyone involved knows it; they probably laughed at it themselves! The problem with this movie is not that it's bad (it's awful), but it's not in on the joke. Everyone involved took this movie seriously -- TOO seriously.
Millions of dollars were spent... what went wrong here? In a word, everything. Well, to be fair, I can't really fault the actors - they were just wrong for their parts. They say there are thespians who can dramatize a telephone directory... well, THOSE are the guys they should've hired. To the cast's credit, they read off their lines with straight faces, which is more than most people could have managed.
As for the rest... it seemed the movie was targeted to an audience with bad hearing, dim eyesight and low intelligence. In case the slope-browed dialog didn't hammer home what you were supposed to be feeling at any given moment, the music was always there to keep you on target. It was so overbearing, especially during the patriotic upswells, I wished I'd brought earplugs. Even the makeup was overdone -- did they use airbrushes to apply it? There were a couple of close-ups where all I could focus on was Gary Sinise's eyeliner!
The only saving grace to this movie, if there was one, was the concept. Ok, well it's not all that innovative anymore, but it had its roots in good old-fashioned sci-fi. One star for effort... and because the rating system won't let you give 0 stars.
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Summary: BETTER THAN "RED PLANET"...
Review: I have to admit that I actually enjoyed this movie. I certainly liked it better than "Red Planet". I believe "Mission to Mars" to be the better of the two movies. It has a stellar cast and, I thought, good on screen chemistry between the actors. Most of the special effects were excellent. All in all, it is a good directorial effort by Brian De Palma. Somehow, however, this has become the movie that viewers love to hate. Well, I am afraid that I disagree, as I found it to be a pretty decent sci-fi move. Of course, I am partial to this genre of film, so perhaps that may account in part for my liking this movie. The premise of this movie is simple. A crew is sent on a mission to Mars. The mission is disrupted when three of the four crew members are killed by an unknown energy force emanating from a strange metallic composition in the soil. A new crew of four go on a rescue mission. These four, Tim Robbins, Connie Nielsen, Gary Sinise, and Jerry O'Connell, make up the rescue crew. Due to problems encountered in space, only three of the four make it to Mars. When they get to Mars, they find the surviving crew member. Debriefing him of the events that led to the destruction of the mission, they discover that the metallic composition in the soil is, in fact, a giant metallic head made in the image of man. Therein lies the mystery. What they eventually discover astounds them and makes one of them decide to go where no man has gone before. The ending is somewhat reminiscent of a combination of the movies, "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." So, I ask you, how bad can this movie be? On the contrary, it is actually pretty good. Better yet, it can be watched by the entire family.
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Summary: This movie was fantastic!
Review: A clever and complex combined with amazing special effects make this movie a must see!
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Summary: Great Effects!!!!!!!!!
Review: Mission to Mars was a decend movie. Great special effects and good plot. The picture quality was perfect. Very 3-D, no dirt, and no enhancment. The sound was perfect too. It had great suppliments that told the story of the making of this film. The only problem was it's PG rating. It had tomuch violence to be PG. It should be PG-13. If it wasn't for that it would get a 5 star rating.
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