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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.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] sci-fi violence, brief nudity and language

Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

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... 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]

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.

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There are only so many life or death deadlines we can be expected to stomach in one trip to Mars as the impossible repeatedly becomes the inevitable in these all or nothing scenarios.

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01/01/00
Ed Scharf
Ed Scharf
CheckOut.com

Early on, Lucy informs the crew there's been a 'failure to engage.' I think she was talking about the movie.

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Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
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Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

Red Planet seems powered by a 'Cool Stuff' aesthetics -- it's full of bits and pieces that don't add up to anything or make much of an impression.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
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Eric Harrison
Eric Harrison
Houston Chronicle
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The thing is not only unbelievable, it's actually boring!

Full Review Source: Greenwich Village Gazette | comment Comment
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Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette

No better than 1953's Abbott and Costello Go to Mars.

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Frank Lovece
Frank Lovece
TV Guide's Movie Guide

[A] completely idiotic, excruciatingly dull potboiler.

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01/01/00
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

When the movie diverts to the surface of Mars, with its fairly tedious FX platter of swarming, man-eating bugs, renegade cyborgs and ice storms that Red Planet loses momentum.

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Gary Thompson
Gary Thompson
Philadelphia Daily News

Atrocious dialogue, gross clichés, absurd plot twists and ludicrous orchestral flourishes.

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Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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One gets the sense, while watching Red Planet, that we are viewing the work of fan-boys, not creative geniuses.

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Gregory Weinkauf
Gregory Weinkauf
New Times

As a human interest drama, Red Planet is more thin than Mars' atmosphere.

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James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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N/R

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Jason Anderson
Jason Anderson
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The cast outclasses the material.

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Jay Boyar
Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel

Red Planet is a giant roach motel of a movie, where actors check in but don't check out.

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Jay Carr
Jay Carr
Boston Globe
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Poorly conceived and executed.

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Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Dramatically inert.

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Jim Judy
Jim Judy
Screen It!

The film was actually never boring for me, but neither was it ever exciting.

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Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

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.

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John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday
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When a character points out that relationships on the ship are 'like high school,' you may wonder if he means junior high.

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John Hartl
John Hartl
Seattle Times
 
 
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