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Mission to Mars [2000]
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| Editorial Reviews: | | |  | | If Brian De Palma directed Mission to Mars for 10-year-olds who have never seen a science fiction film, he can be credited for crafting a marginally successful adventure. Isolated moments in this film serve the highest purpose of its genre, inspiring a sense of wonder and awe in the context of a fascinating future (specifically, the year 2020). But because most of us have seen a lot of science fiction films, it's impossible to ignore this one's derivative plot, cardboard characters and drearily dumb dialogue. Despite an awesome and painstakingly authentic display of cool technology and dazzling special effects, Mission to Mars is light years away from 2001: A Space Odyssey on the scale of human intelligence. After dispensing with a few space-jockey clichés, the movie focuses on a Mars-bound rescue mission commanded by Jim McConnell (Gary Sinise), whose team (Tim Robbins, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O'Connell) has been sent to retrieve the sole survivor (Don Cheadle) of a tragic Mars landing. During the sequence en route to Mars, De Palma is in his element with two suspenseful scenes (including a dramatic--albeit somewhat silly--space walk) that are technically impressive. But when this Mission gets to Mars, the movie grows increasingly unconvincing, finally arriving at an alien encounter that more closely resembles an astronomical CGI video game. But this is a $75 million Hollywood movie, and no amount of technical wizardry can lift the burden of a juvenile screenplay. Kudos to Sinise, his co-stars, and the special effects wizards for making the most of hoary material; shame on just about everyone else involved. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com | |
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| Give this film a break !! | |
| | The reason that many people feel let down by the ending is that de palma unlike many other hollywood directors does what he likes and thankfully didnt create a typical happy ending, its meant to be sad and it works 100%. This film is visually stunning and the cast is excellent, maybe i do agree with some comments on first viewing, but on the second possibly third viewing i could see this film was a classic. If you are a brian de palma, rather than a typical sci-fi fan, buy now.
| | Void of violence and full of hope. | |
| | Not sure why people are trying to burn this movie as it's actually pretty good. The CGI is good the acting is fine and the story, although overly simplistic at times, is well paced with enough happening to keep the viewer interested without being overblown. I'm one of the poor suckers that bought "Serenity" which must go down in history as one of most hyped movies ever. I would gladly swop my copy of "Serenity" for a copy of "Mission to Mars".
Even though I agree that this film isn't another "2001 A Space Odyssey" it's in many ways more fun because of it's easy going style. In my DVD collection I would put this film next to "The Day After Tomorrow" as it's the kind of film that I could watch again and again.
The bottom line is that this is a good wholesome family movie void of violence and full of hope.
| | | Who on earth ever gave this appalling film the go-ahead? It's simply dreadful. Starting with an "Aw shucks, I love you guys" pre-flight astronaut barbecue (!), it continues improbably and sentimentally to Mars via lousy dialogue, wooden plotting and a gushing music soundtrack. I can't believe that any of the actors actually read the script before agreeing to do it, but at least Tim Robbins' character has the presence of mind to take his helmet off and die, presumably after realising what a turkey he's appearing in. The ending is simply ludicrous - a cross between ET, Close Encounters and 2001, with none of the dubious charms of any of those films, although it did make me laugh out loud for several minutes.
This is one of those rare films - a complete stinker with virtually no saving graces at all - but I'd like a copy just to ridicule from time to time. It would get a negative star rating if that were possible.
| | | Great cast, great idea, plausible ship, credible science, but what happened? The story fizzled, the ending kind of an anti-climax, and I was so very disappointed.
I figured what with genuine NASA people involved that this movie would be a space geek's (i.e. me) heaven but even with six time astronaut Storey Musgrave this tale just dragged.
I won't spoil the story (such as it was) for those who haven't seen it, but it involves Mars, Cydonia and the face in the rock, Martians and what happens when you have nothing else left to lose.
I'd say avoid this movie, but in my heart I want to like it, it has everything a space geek could want. It just didn't work for me. Perhaps you'd like it?
| | | | I really don't know why this film has got quite such a slating - it seems to have touched a nerve with a few people. Anyway, I intend to give my own point of view without ranting on about it (too much). To clear up a few misconceptions, this film isn't trying to be true to life down to the finest detail, nor is it trying to be something like Alien - it is much more light hearted. I would describe this film as more of a family film (it's only a PG) although some people do get killed and there are a few hold-your-breath moments. The plot: obviously this film is about a mission to Mars, or perhaps more accurately a rescue mission which is launched after all contact is lost with the first crew. There are complications along the way and there is one particular scene when the astronauts are floating around in space which is quite tense. It turns out that the first crew were killed by activities associated with this mysterious mountain which is sending out a type of pulse. The crew set out to dicover what it means... Okay, so there are aspects of the film that are unrealistic but at the end of the day it is science fiction and more importantly IT IS A FILM! Seriously though, the ending is sort of sentimental and not all that expected considering what happens in the rest of the film and the only reason that it would offend you is if you are not expecting it. But now you have been warned. If you want to watch something that is to do with space and historically accurate get Apollo 13, if you want to watch people get killed by aliens get Pitch Black (both awesome films)but if you want to watch a film you have never seen before whilst eating some popcorn and not having to pay too much attention, get Mission To Mars. Ignore the other reviews, you can't go wrong - buy it.
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