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Red Planet (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 94 Fresh: 12  Rotten:82 Average Rating: 3.8/10
 
Consensus: While the special effects are impressive, the movie suffers from a lack of energy and interesting characters.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins

Theatrical Release: Nov 10, 2000 Wide

Box Office: $17,050,061

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 Mars is the only alternative to obliteration. Bowman and her crew have made this journey to... 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. [More]

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Starring: Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Simon Baker-Denny, Benjamin Bratt

Director: Anthony Hoffman
Screenwriter: Channing Gibson, Jonathan Lemkin
Producer: Mark Canton, Bruce Berman, Jorge Saralegui

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Release:

Mar 27, 2001

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DVD Features:

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Matthew Turner
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Jean Lowerison
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Red Planet's lack of original ideas locks it into a decaying orbit.

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08/16/02
Jeffrey Westhoff
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Even when the astronauts are running out of oxygen, they still insist on espousing their theories about life, science and God. Had the movie any sexual or racial tension, it could pass itself off as "The Real World: Mars."

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06/15/02
James Sanford
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The film’s dearth of imagination is nowhere more evident than in the flat, tepid dialogue.

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Steven D. Greydanus
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03/22/02
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As B films go, Red Planet has its heart in the right place.

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Chuck Rudolph
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Rich Cline
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Garth Franklin
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In a choice of lesser evils, you could do a whole lot worse… While it never climbs very high, it survives because we know how much further it could fall.

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Rob Vaux
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