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Summary: Popular actors, standard formula, and passes time well.
Review: If you are looking for some exotic space creature like Sigourney Weaver, or even Jane Fonda. Then this is not the movie for you. The closest it comes to this is the obligatory shower scene. If you are looking for big ugly killer creatures or space pirates, again this movie is not for you.What this movie does contain are the popular actors of this time. One popular actor included but overlooked in a lot of reviews is Benjamin Bratt ...Ted Santen, who shows up again in "Miss Congeniality" (2000) ASIN: B00005AAA9 where he seems to have gotten a much higher rating. The movie is formula with the standard mix of personalities. The Mission is like all the others. There is a compelling need to go to Mars. Naturally disaster strikes. Some sacrifice some good guys, maybe some bad guys, a few anticipated suppress, and AMEE knows the way to a man's hart. The DVD has some outtakes that you may find enhances the film and then again the scenes may have been taken out for good reason. There is no running commentary. I am not going to transliterate the story. If you watch it for fun then you should not be disappointed.
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Summary: RED is DEAD.
Review: RED PLANET brings together three hot Hollywood stars including: Val Kilmer (Batman Forever), Carrie Anne Moss (Memento, The Matrix) and Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbor) into the brick red world of Mars. A group of astronauts, in the future, take a space ship of some sort to the "Red Planet". After landing, the crew realizes a large gowth of algae, and eventually realizes that there is oxygen on the planet, and they want to know how. Then, the team's robot AMEE, goes into "kill" mode and hunts down the crew one by one. Now the crew must fight all and escape the planet with their lives! MY REVIEW: "I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of 'Mars' movies. We've got TOTAL RECALL and MISSION TO MARS, and now the most pathetic of them all- RED PLANET. This film is very dull, and doesn't have much plot. Moss's performance is the only acceptable one. It saddens me to see how SIZEMORE's character thourougly through the film, continues to put down Christian religion. The special effects are nothing like THE MATRIX, and I just couldn't wait till the film was over. I was being very generous when I gave this movie 2 stars, only for it's somewhat interesting Mars set and Moss's performance. It is said, "Red is dead!" No more Mars movies! If you wanna see a great Mars film- check out an original: The SCHWARZENEGGER thriller; TOTAL RECALL. Skip this movie, Definetely!"- MJV & the Movies
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Summary: If Nothing Else, it beats watching "Mission to Mars".
Review: "Red Planet" is Easily the Better of the 2 big screen Mars flicks released recently, but it is Still a Sub-Par Sci-fi film. One day someone will make a Mars film that has Great Characters, Good Dialogue, Lots of Action, Suspense and Wonder, Spectacular Effects and, if it's not too much to ask... Some Realistic-Looking Aliens. Wouldn't you think that they would be the first thing on the "To Do" list, not in "Red Planet". (and Definitely not in "Mission to Mars") The film is a Bare Bones "Beat the Clock" story, like "Pitch Black" but not as good. Both are Great to Look at (as they were filmed in my native Australia) but "Pitch Black" actually had Believable, Likeable and Well-Developed Characters and a little more Substance. "Red Planet" has Good Actors, but mostly it wastes them. It seems to be in a Huge rush to Kill everyone off, so why bother Developing them. Val Kilmer gives a Strangely Likeable performance, a Toned Down version of his "Island of Dr Moreau" performance. He saved that film and he saves "Red Planet". Carrie Anne Moss and Tom Sizemore lend Good Support to the film, but it's Simon-Baker Denny who gets the all round Best Performance. His facial say a lot about his Character Personality and we Never know weather to Trust him or not, he never sinks into True Blue Goodie or Clichéd Bad gut, he cleverly stays in the middle, an Enigma. He makes the film Far more interesting. Terence Stamp's performance looks Superimposed from any one of his other films and Benjamin Bratt is annoying. Both Actors were Unnecessary and only there for their Names and their Paychecks. Like virtually All of this films target audience, I saw it for it's Special Effects, which looked Great in the Theatrical Trailer. In the Film, they range from State-of-the-Art (the AMEE Robot) to Sad State of Affairs-Effects (the Zero-Gravity Fire, which was done Way better in "Event Horizon"). As for Alien Life on Mars, I don't want to give away too much but for Me the result was Quite a Let down. "Too Little Too Late" sums it up fairly well. The film does have Quite a Few things that make it Well worth a look. AMEE the Robot was the Real Star of the film; she should get her Own film, which I'd like to see. A Military creation with the Looks of a Cheetah's Skeleton, the Mind of a Green Beret, the fists of Bruce Lee and the Mentality of the Blair Witch (they both love to Toy with their Victims). The way the boys Land on Mars is also a Highlight. NASA's Equipment gets Quite a lot Better in 50 some odd years. We Finally have Space suits that are Mobile and Strong, and Ships that take 6 months to get to Mars, but Prey that a Solar Flare does hit the ship or it Falls apart like a Go Cart under a Semi. Sure some of it is Nonsensical, but lots of it Works. "Red Planet" is Ultimately a Good Way to pass an Hour and Forty minutes. Once you get over the fact that Hollywood has Yet to make the Definitive Mars Flick (Tim Burtons "Mars Attacks" is the best so far, and that is a Worrying Thing) you can sit back and Enjoy what they Have made, a Fun, Old Fashioned "Beat-the-Clock" Sci-fi Flick.
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Summary: Interesting, but boring and desperate for attention.
Review: At least "Mission to Mars" had an interesting ending and gave us something to think about. Not to say that "Red Planet" was a total waste. The special effects were good and the idea was inticing, but overall, director Anthony Hoffman didn't make much of the material he was given. The film drags and desperatly searches for ideas to keep us interested. It doens't know who the bad guy is or what's going on half the time. First the robot is trying to kill Val Kilmer and his crew, then little aliens are jumping out at them. If the film could make up its mind, then maybe we would care (or know) what the heck was going on.
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Summary: GOOD BUT NOT GREAT...
Review: It is the year 2057, and the earth is depleting its oxygen supply. A crew travels to Mars to see about potentially colonizing it. When they are close enough to Mars to touchdown, things go haywire, forcing all of the crew, less their commander, to abandon ship on the commander's orders. The crew manages to land on Mars, where they discover that things are not what they seem. They are in for a few surprises, as well as a mounting body count, as here, too, things begin to go haywire. Meanwhile, up in space the commander has managed to salvage their spaceship. Will the crew make it back to the ship? Will the Earth be saved? Watch the movie, but be forewarned that it will probably only appeal to die hard sci-fi fans. Despite an excellent cast, the movie tends to flag.
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Summary: It should have stayed on the dark side of the planet.
Review: For the quality of actors that they had in this the movie was garbage. From such top notch people they created a slow paced, cliche of a film. It never picked up and the odd clever idea was simply lost in lack of plot and over all concept. It could have been so much more than it ended up being.
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Summary: Not a bad science fiction film. It could have been better
Review: Red Planet was just as good as its rival "Mission To Mars." It had its share of faults. But, nevertheless, it was an enjoyable science fiction adventure, with some elements of science fact woven into the storyline. It would have been a better film if the character played by Terence Stamp had not been killed off half-way through the film. Most of all, it would have been better if a different leading actor had been chosen. Or a newcomer, like Grayson McCouch from Armageddon. Even Patrick Swayze or Billy Campbell would have been better choices. Including George Clooney. Nevertheless, despite borrowing a subplot from Saturn 3, the film has some very interesting moments. The special effects were superb, the acting good, the special effects explosive, and the plot a very solid one. Even Carrie Anne Moss shines as the mission commander, without playing the role like a Ripley-clone or a throwback to her role in The Matrix. Overall, it's not a bad film. It could have been better. But, hey, what can you do? At least the music was better than the one in M2M.
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Summary: Again miss-informed.
Review: Well, when I first said I wanted to see this movie my mom looked it up on Deseret News, and it was a bad review. So from that point on my mom was not for it! When I finally did get to see it I was entertained, and not to mention I could see it again in the same day without getting bored! which means it wasn't a film you could memorize when you see it for the first time. You don't know what's going to happen next, and you can never tell either. If you've read even a little about the story you'd know that the droid goes mustang, and is after them. What impressed me was the robot...it looked exactly like a mountain lion, or a puma. It moved like one, and it even acted like one! So when that robot goes BAZERK it gave me chills, because I've had mountain lions in my back yard before. Another thing was the plot, it was not what you usually expect from a Mars film. Usually you'd find aliens on Mars, either they what to totally exterminate the entire human race, or they are some sort of god-like figure, BUT NOT IN THIS MOVIE!! So find out the REAL secret behind Mars! and watch this movie, I don't think you'll regret it.
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Summary: One of the better movies of 2000
Review: I thought this movie had great special effects, very believable. Its unfair to compare it to Mission To Mars. The acting is good though the script could have been better.
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Summary: Gilligan's Island on Mars
Review: Some of the material in "Red Planet" is way too advanced for the common moviegoer (a lot of technical talk), but the most tense scenes involving cliffs, losses of oxygen and rescue devices with only space for two are easy to follow as well as entertaining. The scenery of the planet is really dazzling and spectacular. Some of the plot is undeveloping, but the acting in this is above average. Give it a chance.
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