Mission to Mars
Mission to Mars | ||
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Director: | Brian De Palma | Actors: | Gary Sinise (as Jim McConnell), Tim Robbins (as Woodrow 'Woody' Blake), Don Cheadle (as Luke Graham), Connie Nielsen (I) (as Terri Fisher), Jerry O'Connell (as Phil Ohlmyer), Peter Outerbridge (as Sergei Kirov), Kavan Smith (as Nicholas Willis), Jill Teed (as Rene� Cot�), Elise Neal (as Debra Graham), Kim Delaney (as Maggie McConnell), Marilyn Norry (as NASA Wife), Freda Perry (as NASA Wife), Lynda Boyd (as NASA Wife), Patricia Harras (as NASA Wife), Robert Bailey Jr. (as Bobby Graham) | Country: | USA | Category: | Action | Year: | 2000 |
| Description: | When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors. | Comments: | I hardly even know where to start with this one! It's interesting contrasting my reaction to this movie with 'Red Planet'. 'Red Planet' looked like utter trash from the word go, and guess what? It was. 'Red Planet', being directed by the usually excellent Brian De Palma, and having actors of the calibre of Tim Robbins, Gary Sinise and Don Cheadle in the cast, looked like it might be a solid, albeit old fashioned (John W. Campbell era) science fiction story. The problem with it was exactly the same as 'Red Planet' - an absolute stinker of a script! The characters are undeveloped, the dialogue clumsy, even downright awful at times, and it shamelessly recycles plot devices, and even whole scenes, from previous SF movies and stories. There's not one ounce of intelligence or originality on display here! 'Mission To Mars' is sadly yet another awful Hollywood science fiction movie where special effects take precedence over an imaginative and well crafted script. How long Hollywood will continue to make this fundamental error is difficult to say. With 'Rollerball' opening in Australia as I type, and 'Attack Of The Clones' just around the corner, maybe not so difficult! I hope one day they wise up. Until then science fiction movies from the major studios will continue to disappoint and depress. | Languages: | English | Subtitles: | Length: | 113 | Video format: | DivX 3.11 Low Motion | Audio format: | MPEG Layer 3 (MP3) | Resolution: | 640x272 | Files sizes: | 670 |