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Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Right from the the getgo this movie was & turned to worse. Tom Sizemore & Simon Baker could not act if their lives depended on it. The director should be embarrassed. not worth hiring. I bet the producer never got a good return on their money. I think Val Kilmar & Kerrie anne Moss lowered them selves on this 1

I honestly haven't got a lot of good things to say about Red Planet other than it tried. It really tried. This wasn't meant to be a movie that makes you fall asleep instead of afraid and thrilled and to that end I feel like I must go easier on it. The people behind the effects deserve praise and really push this movie up in quality. it's just a shame that it is undercut by lazy directing and bland as unbuttered white bread acting with Val Kilmer putting in a lazy performance to rival his batman performance a few years earlier. At the end of the day I can't recommend this movie. The only time I would say go ahead is if your internet is down at 3 in the morning and this is on TV, and even then I would check what was one Adult Swim first.

I made an account just to comment on this pile of garbage.If you thought Battlefield Earth was a well written, well acted and scientifically reasonable movie then you will find this to be absolute trash. If you liked the Martian, you wont even be able to last 30 minutes into this steaming pile of shite, it is the worst SF movie I have ever seen, perhaps even the worst movie period.Save yourself the time and just google Carrie Anne Moss shower scene, that boobshot was literally the only redeeming quality of this movie.Now they say I need more lines of text, this movie does not deserve 10 lines, just two words are sufficient, IT SUCKS!

What's dumber than a box full o'rocks?Apparently, a tincan full o'rocket scientists!Warning: major MULTIPLE SPOILERS alert! Seriously! A bunch of 'em!We'll gloss quickly over just a few of the many opening idiocies - that, in order to generate enough "atmosphere" to (momentarily) overcome the natural gravitational leakage of Mars, the algae would have to eat nothing but rock, cover the entire surface of the planet a foot deep and probably run through every drop of water in both polar ice caps in about a week; that this "air" would last about another week after the algae died; that the main spacecraft was so poorly designed and badly shielded, it couldn't handle being smacked into by a simple wave of solar radiation and maybe a few piddly micrometeorites; that their emergency so-called "landing" system was among the most moronic concepts NASA ever dismissed out-of-hand without a second thought - and move right on to the biggest bit of REALLY astounding stupidity....Okay, so they've crash-landed on Mars. They now have a trudge of unknown distance ahead of them, a severely limited air supply and a colleague with life-threatening injuries. (At this point in the script, they're not yet aware that the Habitat has already been trashed. More brainlessness - like simple telemetry couldn't have told them that before they even left Earth??) But, not to worry, they've also brought along a sophisticated piece of hardware which can probably save ALL their lives. The "AMEE" unit is entirely self-powered and self-propelled, can run at speeds approaching 50 clicks an hour and has servo motors clearly serious enough to carry a pretty hefty load, particularly under Martian gravity.Like, maybe, a wounded man in a spacesuit, for example...?But is this brain-trust (more like "brain-rust"!) smart enough to use it properly? Sadly, no. Not even their "engineer", Val Kilmer, thinks to simply say, "AMEE? Would you please run on ahead and find the Habitat, then come back and guide us to it while carrying Professor Ruptured-Spleen, here? Oh, and, while you're at it, please bring back some full air tanks and a water bottle or two. There's a good girl..."She was a "borrowed" military device. As clearly demonstrated later on in the storyline, a major part of her original design intent was, specifically, recon and intelligence-gathering - locating potentially hidden things in completely unfamiliar terrain - not to mention protection and support of her assigned "squad" of personnel. Her subroutines, especially as twitchy as they were after the crash and subsequent "rebooting" of her military protocols, would've been thrilled to pieces to be given a REAL mission! (...a whole 'nother folly, that any such inherently-dangerous and patently-USELESS-on-Mars software was left on her harddrive, simply "inhibited", not COMPLETELY WIPED, as any SENSIBLE engineer would've done before even allowing her aboard!)Instead, these geniuses sign their own death warrants by actively conspiring to waste some of the precious little time and oxygen they have left DESTROYING their "Ultimate Personal Assistant", just to get at her navigational subsystem, separately extracting her power supply, then improvising a connection between the two with clip leads or bare wires or spit-and-chewing-gum or something, so they can hand-carry the resulting half-assed armload of Rube-Goldberg'd junk across untold kilometers of Martian landscape.Excuse me?!?!? Seriously!?!?!?!? What the *bleep* kinda *bleep*ing sense does THAT *bleep*ing make????Oy, *bleep*ing vey!Personally, I'd MUCH prefer to simply FOLLOW said "navigational system" as it frolics on ahead of me, rather than screw it up with a screwdriver and lug it around myself. That's just dumber than TWO boxes of (Martian) rocks! "Suspension of disbelief"?!? I had to practically lynch mine and string it up to sit through the rest of this silly film. A plot with this many holes in it wouldn't even make a decent window screen - they're so HUGE you could sling a cat(-shaped rogue robot) through 'em!