Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

nilen-51573 I remember seeing this when it was new and I disliked it so much that I still remember it clearly to this day. Why do they have a robot with the possibility to hurt people with them. You knew form the start that this will go wrong. All the members are presented in a good fashion except one who you know little about. I wonder who the bad and selfish guy will be.The thing that I so hated was that they after awhile on the planet notice that its possible to breath on it. Two persons died before this without really needing to. I just disliked that "plots twist" so much that I would put this as one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

cinemajesty What "Red Planet" could have been if had been brought to the screen with necessary scientific accuracy. At first glance, the movie seems tightly made with 100 Minutes running time without end crawler. But director Antony Hoffman and screenwriter Chuck Pfarrer give in towards a mediocre entertainment factor. Spaceship arrives at Mars orbit. The Hollywood standard incident occurs with Spaceship having malfunctions. Exploring crew gets stranded on the Mars surface. Then they team members die one by one by accident, hand-to-hand struggle, malfunctioning robot dog attack and bio-hazard insect invasion. Spaceship in orbit gets fixed. One member on Mars surface survives. He gets off the planet by locating a hidden space capsule and stealing the battery from robot initiate rescue probe engines. Spaceship crew of two seals their victory with a kiss. The couple flies back to Earth.Due to the string of a straight forward scene structure, the movie can be enjoyable. Nevertheless every step of the characters' journey in "Red Planet" comes to easy. There is no urgency nor dramatic tension within scenes. The cast plays their parts, but they are not living it on screen. The ingredients have been on the plate to choose from, but the director makes no use of it. Cinematography Peter Suschitzky does only the absolute minimum to convey the visual story with color, light and standard camera movements. Production Designer Owen Paterson has his craft under control, but does not get challenged by the director. So to speak it seems that the studio executives took charge of the production footage and finished it up with two editors in standardized manner to open the movie up for widely ranged target audience, which in the case "Red Planet" did not work out. The movie fell flat at the box office domestically as well as internationally with just approx 33,500,000.00 U.S. Dollars revenue worldwide.This 80,000,000.00 Millions U.S. Dollars production shows in a sense that if a first-time director comes to story-driven feature material after a successful commercial portfolio, then it does not guarantee that a directorial signature can be translated. "Red Planet" could have been directed by anyone, it lacks a director's vision, which challenges the cast in their interactions, even dare to improvise from a mediocre script to surprise the audience instead of sedate them in their comfort zone. The production team of "Red Planet" had it all. Director Antony Hoffmann was unable to make use the values to create an event movie that last in the specter's mind.

Spikeopath The second of the Mars based box office bombs released in 2000, Red Planet is maybe - just maybe - worth a revisit by some who were irritated by it back on first viewing. Once knowing that this is not going to be some action packed alien movie, that it's a survivalist drama that tips its hat to 1950s sci-fi schlock, that cares about its characters, then there's a decent popcorner experience to be had here. This is not to say it's a genius entry in the sci-fi pantheon, because it's not, the same problems still exist; Terence Stamp is woefully under used (seriously they could have got any low paid character actor to play his role), some things either don't make sense or are left unanswered, and of course it still drags in the middle as the boys chatter away on Mars whilst Carrie Anne-Moss is up at base station fretting and suffering erectus nippleus.Yet there's fun to be had here, some nutty science marries up with nice photography and splendid set design, and the makers know what sort of picture they want to make. Where Mission to Mars sunk under the weight of its own pretensions - trying to go all elegiac and important, Red Planet nudges and winks and asks you along for the ride. So get on board and take it for what it is, a pretentious free zone with good human drama at the core. 6.5/10

politehere I'm an avid science-fiction fan and I enjoy movies about space travel, especially if it's about traveling to the Mars. This movie is so unwatchable that I barely cared about what was happening to the characters.The movie is not engaging at all and the characters are all unlikable,even the actress that played Trinity in the Matrix looks completely bland in this horrible movie. The sets are all poorly made and even by the standards of 15 years ago, the special effects are disastrous;considering there were fantastic movies like the Matrix and the Terminator 2 around at the time.I'm sure my judgment has not been influenced by all the successful science fiction movies I've seen during all these years. I even enjoyed Mission to Mars. At least that movie was emotionally engaging, but this one is just horrible. By the end of the movie, my nephew and I were laughing out loud at how horrible the movie was and we both thought its only redeeming quality was the girl's space suit near the end of the movie, which was much more attractive than the ugly suits the characters had on all the time. This movie is not even eye-candy. It is just terrible. Do not even get me started on how unrealistic and unscientific it was. Avoid this movie like the plague.