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Mission to Mars
Touchstone Pictures
Cast: Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O'Connell
Director: Brian De Palma
MPAA Rating: PG (for sci-fi action and peril, and for sensuality and language)
What is Mission to Mars? A sci-fi movie? Fantasy? Action? Adventure? After watching the movie I'm still not sure. The movie takes place in the year 2020, a future so near we can practically reach out and grasp it. The story focuses around the first mission to mars. The expedition goes horribly wrong and so a second team is sent out to recover the soul survivor, whom they don't even know for sure is alive (does anybody else wonder why they'd spend all those billions of dollars sending another team into a dangerous situation to save someone who might not even be alive? Anyway...)
So, now we're sent into space on a disaster mission where every possible thing that could go wrong does (this movie should have been titled 'Apollo 13 to Mars'), and our crew must brave through it all to reach the red planet where they find the survivor (Whew! At least all of that mess wasn't for nothing).
Then, we get the conclusion which is a fantasy alien creation story (basically, exactly what the trailer told us... 'our theory about life on Earth was all wrong').
So, did I like the movie? Yes and no. The special effects and the martian landscapes were nothing short of incredible, but the story wasn't anything ground-breaking. I felt like the movie was a drawn-out version of the trailer (the main special effects scenes were pretty much all given away in the trailer). Some of the camera direction by Brian De Palma was excellent with lots of long travel-shot sequences. But, overall, I felt like the movie was a bunch of recycled ideas from better movies (i.e. The Abyss, Close Encounters of the Third Kind...) thrown together in an 'OK' story with 'extra-OK' effects. Maybe by the time the year 2020 does roll around, Hollywood will make special effects movies with good stories for a change.
RATING: B+
james covell
D: the movie went nowhere although it ahd great special effects.The movie didn't know if it wanted to be a disaster movie or a mock up of 2001
Daniel Perez
A+: An A+ you ask? Try reading Richard C. Hoagland's Monuments of Mars, which you can find at Amazon.com, for the real story on Mars. Also check out his website; http://www.enterprisemission.com
Jeff
A: You had to have a brain to understand it.
Aaron
B+: This movie was neato.
Karla
B+: Well I really enjoyed that movie. I really enjoy sci-fi movies hat try to tell us what will happen in the near future. I believe if there was a little bit more action than the movie would of been a tad bit better.
Rob
B+: This movie was pretty good. the effects were reallistic and it had some comic things in the movie
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