With all the news coverage over the past few years surrounding the probing and prodding by earthlings on our red neighbor, Mars, it seems only fitting that someone should make a movie about it. Mission to Mars is a painful result of recent speculation and theory.
A group of astronauts are suddenly killed by a strange phenomenon and it's up to a a rescue mission headed by Tim Robbins and Gary Sinise, with side kick Jerry O'Connell, and babe Connie Nielson, to save whatever is left.
Lots of dollars were spent on special effects for this film and it certainly shows. Sadly, the budget must not have had room for writers as the script ranges from mundane to downright stupid.
An attempt at making our characters three dimensional falls flat, as the issues they deal with (the death of a spouse) just don't seem to muster a tear from the audience. Where films like Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff manage to delve into the private lives of the crew, Mission To Mars takes a wrong turn. In the end, we are left with the worst performance of Tim Robbins career, playing someone that resembles Ward Cleaver rather than an astronaut about the land on Mars.
Mission to Mars tries to go the route that films like Contact did go, only the writing is not strong enough to support the wacky theories that become this film.
I should have known better than to waste ten dollars on a summer blockbuster that is so bad they had to release it in March!
A group of astronauts are suddenly killed by a strange phenomenon and it's up to a a rescue mission headed by Tim Robbins and Gary Sinise, with side kick Jerry O'Connell, and babe Connie Nielson, to save whatever is left.
Lots of dollars were spent on special effects for this film and it certainly shows. Sadly, the budget must not have had room for writers as the script ranges from mundane to downright stupid.
An attempt at making our characters three dimensional falls flat, as the issues they deal with (the death of a spouse) just don't seem to muster a tear from the audience. Where films like Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff manage to delve into the private lives of the crew, Mission To Mars takes a wrong turn. In the end, we are left with the worst performance of Tim Robbins career, playing someone that resembles Ward Cleaver rather than an astronaut about the land on Mars.
Mission to Mars tries to go the route that films like Contact did go, only the writing is not strong enough to support the wacky theories that become this film.
I should have known better than to waste ten dollars on a summer blockbuster that is so bad they had to release it in March!
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