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Red Planet (2000)
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Reviews Counted:96
Fresh:12
Rotten:84
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: While the special effects are impressive, the movie suffers from a lack of energy and interesting characters.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis:
Mission Commander Kate Bowman (Carrie-Anne Moss) is the pilot and commander of the most important mission of the 21st century: saving the human race.
It’s 2050, earth is dying, and colonizing...
Mission Commander Kate Bowman (Carrie-Anne Moss) is the pilot and commander of the most important mission of the 21st century: saving the human race.
It’s 2050, earth is dying, and colonizing Mars is the only alternative to obliteration. Bowman and her crew have made this journey to investigate what went wrong with the malfunctioning Mars Terraforming Project, and to repair it. But what happens when they get there is far more terrifying than anyone could have guessed: a crash-landing leaves them without scientific, communication or escape equipment, and causes their military mapping and exploration robot to malfunction into an enemy, relentlessly dedicated to breaking the team down. Defying orders from Houston, Bowman refuses to leave Gallagher (Val Kilmer), with whom she shares an intense emotional bond, and the others (Tom Sizemore, Benjamin Bratt, Simon Baker and Terence Stamp), and instead attempts to guide them back from above.
But as the landing team explores the harsh new planet desperately seeking a way out, they make the most terrifying and baffling discovery of all: Mars may be barren, but it’s not uninhabited.
Val Kilmer (“Heat,” “The Prince of Egypt”), Tom Sizemore (“Saving Private Ryan”), Carrie-Anne Moss (“The Matrix”), Benjamin Bratt (TV’s “Law & Order”), Simon Baker (“L.A. Confidential”) and Terence Stamp (“The Limey”) star in “Red Planet,” an epic romantic adventure about one crew’s intense struggle for survival against the most extreme odds imaginable.
Starring: Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Simon Baker
Starring: Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Simon Baker, Benjamin Bratt, Terence Stamp
Director: Anthony Hoffman
Director: Anthony Hoffman
Screenwriter: Channing Gibson, Jonathan Lemkin
Producer: Mark Canton, Bruce Berman, Jorge Saralegui
Studio: Warner Bros.
Reviews for Red Planet
Any movie that requires this much narration-background, plot line and introductions to each and every character-is as deprived of oxygen as outer space.
Though not very deep in deep space, I thought Red Planet was pretty good fun.
A programmatic wash, suitable for the bottom half of a double bill, perhaps, if only we had such things anymore.
No solamente es una mala película, sino un verdadero desperdicio de tiempo y dinero que no se le recomienda a nadie en su sano juicio
The smartly engineered story may be enough to satisfy cerebrally starved science-fiction fans, but sadly Red Planet fails to engage on almost every other level.
As a human interest drama, Red Planet is more thin than Mars' atmosphere.
Takes itself pretty seriously for a movie that ask the viewer, in the laborious voice-over prologue, to stow all notions of science and logic.
The lack of narrative drive or genuine surprises may make viewers wish that the Mars invaders had instead tried their luck on another planet.
Red Planet convincingly demonstrates that the shadow side of science is scary — very scary indeed.
The year's second Mars movie isn't as laughable as the first, Brian De Palma's Mission to Mars, but it also offers far fewer signs of life.
Red Planet is a giant roach motel of a movie, where actors check in but don't check out.
Not only shamelessly rips off the best of the genre, but also fails to even put it into a nice sheen or an entertaining package.
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