Mission to Mars





Very dissapointing movie. From the trailers, it looked to be great. However, it was quite bad. I had high hopes. :-(

C-

This was one of the worst movies I have ever seen, and I'm a big Mars/sci-fi fan...

1 out of 5.

Amen, brother

One of those most bizzare and stupid endings of all time. There's something fundamentally wrong about seeing Lt. Dan flying into space like some ship in Enterprise, and even making the *ding* at the end. D-

pure crap.....seriously!...nothing more to say!

D-

but its not F material

Hmmm, I don't remember it being as bad as the grades it's gotten so far...

A terrible, hillariously bad piece of shlock. D-

What happened to Brian de Palma?

F


I rarely give an F to a movie. Infact, I think I have only given an F to three big Hollywood movies so far (out of all movies released theatrically). Mission to Mars is one of them and the most disappointing one at that because I actually expected it to be at least half-decent. I mean, I like the members of the cast, the idea of a Mars film sounds good and Brian De Palma is a top-notch director (well, he used to be one). The cast is good with Gary Sinise probably being the only good thing about the movie. However, everyone acts so bored and desinterested. The visual effects are okay, but nothing spectacular. The whole concept of how the story was solved by the end, was simply ridiculous and artrocious. The movie doesn't have a single bit of suspense in it and drags as if it was 4+ hours long. I almost fell asleep in the theatre. The worst thing about the movie is that it's not just bad, it's not even so-bad-that-it's-good.

It was the first movie I took my then future-wife to. Luckily she didn't break up immediately afterwards, which I would have understood completely. This was total Crap (E)

I dont want to watch this, because i preffered Red Planet with Val Kilmer, and they like came out at the same time, argh!

I didn't found it to be that bad. It has some boring moments ok. B-

C+

Very interesting ideas here with an unfortunately disappointing execution. The fault clearly lies with the script which really failed to properly characterize *anyone*. It isn't a complete waste, imo, as it offers an atleast somewhat interesting ending. The score is for the most part very nice as well.... I see quite a bit of potential in this story and find it quite entertaining. Its very reminiscent of vintage scifi movies without the big special effects and whatnot.

Considering the profound questions it sets forth, it is indeed a failure.... at least an admirable, beautiful attempt at tackling such issues. I think the alien aspect would be less disappointing if De Palma would have put more work into creating believable, remarkable characters. As with any true scifi hit, the real story comes from the human perspective and soul, which was sorely missing in an otherwise worthy film.