Mission to Mars
Mission to Mars
PG | 10 March 2000 (USA)
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When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate.

Reviews
ChanFamous

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

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Dirtylogy

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

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Bergorks

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

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Kinley

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

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Joe-Schmeling

Just bad. Bad acting. Bad story line. Stupid plot.

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tles7

What can I say, if you watch it, you feel at times as though you are witnessing a "look what we can do with CGI" demo. At other times, you feel like you are in a virtual reality game or maybe a really high-end room in the Planeterium. None of it makes sense. None of it is believable in any way. It tries hard to be "deep" but it often borders on goofy.

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macpet49-1

DePalma is famous for stealing script ideas and copying other preceding directors (Hitchcock) who did it better. He's a sad case of too much money and no talent. This is what he'd produce if he just had sex with Disney and immediately after restarted his Prozac. The film starts like a hundred others--brief glimpses into everyone's personas/lives with the usual bedroom humor and moms and dads over the barbees just to let us know they are 'one of us', just reglar folk! Then suddenly they are all astronauts bouncing around no gravity cabins and walking on Mars. The first crew runs into a mean genie who kills all except the Black fella (how pc). The others break the rules to retrieve him only to lose two of themselves in space (one gets iced and the other elopes with dead aliens). There are I think allusions to the Bible (Eve is the big faced statue, mother of us all), theory of chaos (asteroid strike/how Buddhist), and even transsexuals (the alien doesn't appear to have any sex). Lots of off key heavenly choirs singing in the background and doors open and close. Most of the actors appear weary or stunned and look like they regret having signed on. Why are American films sooooo baaaaad? Mafias control them, that's why.

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Max

I really think Brian De Palma is a marvelous and talented director, but he missed the mark on this one. I'm not sure where exactly this went awry, because he had a good, solid cast to work with, but that dialogue - good grief! To call it a snooze-fest would be generous. Another thing - I wouldn't claim in the slightest to know anything intimately about security protocols and procedures aboard a spacecraft, but I would hazard a guess that nothing that happens in this film could ever possibly occur aboard a real spacecraft. Not to mention the severely impaired mental state of Gary Sinise's character. I'm no psychotherapist, but I can't imagine that a real Jim McConnell would be allowed to set foot on a space-faring vessel, even as a maintenance guy, let alone as a decision maker.That aside, the movie starts well enough, but descends rapidly into the unbelievable, then proceeds to become entirely ridiculous and conspiratorial. I want to say that I am more than ready to generously suspend my disbelief if the story treats my intelligence with respect, which I'm sorry to report - it did not.I'm not sure if I have written a spoiler into this review, and I have no intention of revealing plot lines - there's already plenty of other reviews that do that on here and also address the bizarre left turn that the plot takes, but I'm hedging my bets.Don Cheadle provides the standout performance in this movie - he seemed to really own his character and that's pretty much the nicest thing I can say about this movie.End point - wasn't worth the running time, so avoid this derivative disappointment unless you've already watched Red Planet (which is far better than this) and you just *need* to see another Mars movie at all costs.

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