the audience applauded

People are voting emotionally.

An Exercise In Nonsense

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The worst thing about this movie is that C. Thomas Howell is in it.I haven't seen all his stuff, but I did buy the version of War of the Worlds staring Howell, and it was so bad I threw out the DVD and kept the case. (I did re-watch it a 2nd time just to make sure I wasn't stoned or something).In this movie he's just as bad. How does a guy like that make his living acting? Man he sucks.Some people had the usual delirious complaints about an overly complex plot. They are right, scifi channel does write to their audience. They make movies with such simple plots even a baby could follow it. It seems it's too simple for the simple minded however.There is some bad acting in this movie, most of it from Howell. However there is also some mighty fine acting that's good enough even Howell can't ruin it.All the effects and scenery are fine. Obviously those people complaining about the scenery think they could do a better job. It all looked good to me. Someone actually criticized the ship interior. Heh heh, that's pretty funny. Maybe if this person wants to criticize a space ship interior he should check out the last Star Trek movie with the lame "engineering" decks on the federation ships. Poor excuse for ship interiors. Looked like they ran out of money and resorted to filming at a brewery (oh wait, they did...)...One guy mentioned how all the women were wearing tight little black undershirts....hey buddy, it's called a t-shirt. I have news for you, the guys were wearing similar shirts. Get a brain.This movie deals with runaway corporations that have become enemies with the "government". A Mars mission is sent out because of some energy readings on Mars. Once arriving people start to die, and the bad actor (Howell) thinks there is a traitor. It turns out to be Martens (who have been living underground) killing off the humans. What's left of the crew enter a pyramid and find the Martens. They have two casts who don't like each other, Religious and Warrior (reminds me of the Minbari on Babylon 5). The leader babe of the warriors convinces the bad actor to kill the head priest. The crew ends up splitting up, and each party befriends one of the two Marten factions.And the fun begins.I have seen a lot of bad movies in my life, and this one is only marginally close to being as bad. As an older scifi fan, I have seen the 50s movies when scifi was just starting out, and this movie is much better than those old time movies.However, if the wannabe big time critics want to see a REALLY bad movie, try checking out Hard Gun with Tony Ja some time.These people don't seem to understand how a 1 to 10 scale works either. Giving this movie a 1 or no stars would seem to indicate it's on the bottom of the movie heap, which is clearly isn't (in spite of Howell). And those people giving it over 8 stars seem to think it's one of the great works of art, which of course it isn't even close to.I've stopped some movies in my day and threw them out, deeming the cases worth more than the movie. This movie however wasn't one of them.If I saw this movie in the bargain bin at my local big box store, would I buy it? No, but because I've seen it and I don't care to see it again. If I was bored to tears one night and there was nothing on TV, but this movie came on while I was cruising the Internet would I bother changing the channel? Again, no, because this movie is not that bad (again, in spite of Howell).Watch it once, it's entertaining enough....

What an absolutely horrible, misguided movie. Clearly, the writer was trying to take pieces of Mission to Mars, and Stargate, and trying to throw something together to pay the rent.The story is lame, the acting is non existent.Why does C Thomas Howell continue to do this kind of garbage.He may not be 'A List', but he is better than this nonsense.There are a couple of passable 'not so special' effects, but that's about it.I for one would be thrilled to see SciFi go back to airing old "B" flicks from the 50's, and maybe some more MST3K

This movie is dodgy, plain and simple. In some sequence you can easily tell that the characters are animated in-particularly the rock climbing shots. It wasn't even good animation. In another shot, the camera is all over the place. The camera man must has being shaking like mad. This is not acceptable in a modern day sci-fi flick but yet this movie was allowed to do it. Apart from that, the storyline is weak also. It all seemed like an episode of Stargate. The alien intrusion on Earths History, the staf like weapons and the dodgy looking crests here and their just gave the film a look of stargate rip-off which is just not on. Fair enough, originality is hard to get these days as almost all ideas have been done at some stage but to copy big elements so glaringly is the sign that the producers were half asleep when they were doing this picture. The acting was OK however but again not the best. Overall this film is a poor sci-fi flick so check out other sci-fi movies if you want to be entertained.

Crimson Force was the first new Mars movie in years. It moved better than the very boring Mission to Mars, and had all the fun trappings of a self-aware low-budget sci-fi treat. It was funny, complexly plotted, and satisfying.I'm disagree with the negative comments on this Website. The movie has action, sex, adventure, and a plot that was more complex and interesting than the average sci-fi garbage. This movie had highs and lows in pace, giving me a chance to figure out the intricacies of the various alliances.It made me think and it delivered a message.If you don't like it, you didn't understand it.People need to look beyond the Sci-Fi network budget and pay attention to the story. You will see that this movie was better than their other movies.