Giving us a little more bang for our buck, Red Planet gives us a Mars mission that hold a little more menace than the previous Mars film. The effects are good, the look of Mars is good and I especially liked Val Kilmer. The story is interesting, but the lines that these actors have to say are quite times, dull and lifeless. The always engaging Carrie-Ann Moss spends most of the film trapped aboard the ship while the rest of the crew is down on the angry red planet playing hide and seek from their robot drone, who's been turned on in angry mode and is bent on destroying them all. Some of the scenes during the first portion of the film seemed to be truncated, like they were not able to play themselves out fully. Red Planet has some good ingredients in it, but it seems to be only half baked. It was better than Mission To Mars, but it could've been better.
Review of Red Planet
