Customer Reviews

Mission To Mars

5 star:		(43)
4 star:		(38)
3 star:		(29)
2 star:		(41)
1 star:		(92)

 

 

I'd been looking for this movie for years! I loved it then, I still love it now. I was glad when I was able to find it here.

I recently saw a trailer for Mission to Mars and thought it looked interesting.
I enjoyed most of the film, but the ending took me by surprise. It seemed to me that two very different writers wrote this script. One wrote everything up to The Door (you'll know what I mean if you watch it... don't want to spoil it for anyone) and then some lame-brain wrote the last 20 minutes or so. When it was over, I was left staring at the screen, wishing I could give the director and writer(s?) a really hard smack on the back of the head. I felt rather ripped off in that I'd invested a couple of hours in this and really wasn't in the mood for an odd, artsy ending that day. Still, it hasn't gone in my "Give to a friend cos I don't like it" box because I quite like the first three-quarters of the film.

The scenery, special effects, camera angles, characters, and so on are sure to please, and there's a brief appearance by Alberta's own pre-Stargate: Atlantis' Kavan Smith (looking mighty fine).

Many feedback I see from others are concentrated on the script. For those people who underrated this film, I suggest you study space exploration first, and then rate this movie !!
I would say that this movie is scientifically accurate, the effects(especially the computer graphics), the story, the plot, the casting, the soundtrack are all very good. I would say that in order to accurately rate this movie, these criterias must be taken into consideration before giving it a "single star".

The idea of humans originating from Mars may not be acceptable to some but that's exactly the whole point of this movie...to inspire the viewers about human exploration to Mars. It is true that the tests performed by Viking landers show no sign of life on Mars, but there is no evidence yet that there have never been any form of life on Mars. We would only know that when we send humans to Mars.
As we know, we already have the technological capability to actually send people to Mars. The only reason this is not being done is because of political reasons. This movie appeals for human exploration to Mars.

Imagine how this movie visualized many of the the intriguing questions in a very entertaining way!!
Artificial Gravity (in order for humans not to sustain brain/bone damage due to low-gravity during long-range travel exposure), the huge long crater found on Mars that's about the size of United States, the face found in Cedonia-Mars (which is very very true - see NASA homepage for more details), the sudden explosion of life on earth!!
The only thing that would have perfected this movie was accurately visualizing low gravity on Mars.
This is good entertainment for both amateur and professional astronomers. I would enjoy watching this movie rather than Star Wars Episode 2!!!

Like Jurrassic Park, this film requires some thinking and background knowledge on the part of the viewer. I really like films that challenge my thinking. The slow moving plot and explainatary dialog are helpful in that process. Like Jurrasic Park, emotions are not ignored, giving it far more realism. My dad and I really enjoy this film. The only thing is, that the end never really is explained much.

I rented this DVD to watch with my son. We are both MST3000 fans and ended up watching this classic send-up of the Sci-fi genre in the same vein. Much funnier than AIRPLANE or AIRPLANE II. This film is a guaranteed howler. Who could forget the numerous parodic references to Kubrik, Spielberg, Lucas, etc.? Side-splitting line deliveries from Senise, Robbins, et. al. This movie makes SPACEBALLS look like a Greek tragedy. This movie cries out to be in the permanent collection of anyone who loves great satire. More bang for the buck by far than BATTLEFIELD EARTH. Just thinking about this movie makes it difficult to type, my sides are shaking so violently. A true classic, in every sense. Come to think of it, the crew of MST couldn't possibly top the lines as they are delivered. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

I'd have to rate both Mission to Mars and Red Planet with four stars, although I did like Red Planet slightly better. I can recommend these two movies to anyone who likes things to do with astronomy and space, and has a vivid imagination about how things could be on another planet, as I do.

I saw this movie on a trip to Japan. The batteries in my walkman died and my extra batteries were in my suitcase which was checked. The laptop batteries just died as well, so I had no other choice but to watch this movie. That being said, I would have rather poked my out with a hot poker than watch this movie.
It starts out with the astronaut cliches that were done much better on The Right Stuff and then there was the requisite accident and Tim Robbins waving and saying, "No, no please don't rescue me. I want out of this movie now.". Then there were the other scenes and a scene reminiscent of the scene from 2001, but not as good.
One would think that a movie with Tim Robbins and Gary Sinise couldn't be bad, but man.....

Nothing good can be said about this movie....It is cliche, bland...I can go on and on telling you how bad it is but why waste your time and mine?

I want to start off by saying that i like this movie. Sure it wasn't very realistic, but hey i don't watch movies for realism; i watch documentaries for that. The movie is very drawn out, it seems like a long movie. I like to watch this movie when i'm beyond bored, as with any other movie i feel like watching, its interesting, has great special effects, and good actors. The only problem with the movie is the side-story, it was entirely unneeded. I believe the side-story brought the whole movie down. I can't even figure out why they had that in the movie to begin with; i guess for the ending... but, they really didn't need so much flashbacks. And another thing is, why is every mars movie i've seen something goes horribley wrong, its entirely un-realistic... i'm starting to rant.

I think this is a great movie to watch when your bored of the world, have nothing to do, and are somewhat depressed.

...Brian DePalma will jolt us with his albeit derivative but amazing directorial skills he evidenced in CARRIE, BLOWOUT, BODY DOUBLE and DRESSED TO KILL
...Gary Sinise will look like he's involved in a film and his makeup artist will stop trying to orient him...
...Tim Robbins will win an Oscar, not for this film but for MYSTIC RIVER..
...Jerry O'Connell will stop being cute and try to mature as an actor, the talent's there..somebody just needs to tell him..
...Don Cheadle will stop playing Larry King...
...Ennio Morricone will once again give us a memorable musical score..
...people will appreciate this gorgeously filmed movie for what it is, science fiction..
It's entertaining and what more could ask?