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Mission to Mars

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6.0/10 • 1.5K

2000-03-101h 54m

Science FictionAdventureThriller

For centuries we've been looking for the origin of life on earth. We've been looking on the wrong planet.

When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.

Directors
Brian De Palma
Editors
Paul Hirsch

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  1. Gary Sinise

    Gary Sinise

    Jim McConnell

  2. Tim Robbins

    Tim Robbins

    Woody Blake

  3. Don Cheadle

    Don Cheadle

    Luke Graham

  4. Connie Nielsen

    Connie Nielsen

    Terri Fisher

  5. Jerry O'Connell

    Jerry O'Connell

    Phil Ohlmyer

  6. Peter Outerbridge

    Peter Outerbridge

    Sergei Kirov

  7. Kavan Smith

    Kavan Smith

    Nicholas Willis

  8. Jill Teed

    Jill Teed

    Reene Cote

  9. Elise Neal

    Elise Neal

    Debra Graham

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John Chard

Jun 13, 2015

3.5/10

Some couples dance, others go to Mars. It was the year of two Mars based movies, with the other being Red Planet, of Pitch Black and the chaotic history that produced the Supernova. Plenty of sci-fi around but sadly few decent offerings. Mission to Mars is a film you can see had good ideas on the page, some brainy and emotion based narrative threads. Effects work is OK for the era, while there's a very impressive cast put together to tell the story. Yet the script stinks to high heaven, the surprises are as absent as Martians are, while the steals from previous sci-fi movies grate on the nerves. The odd sequence has quality about it (dancing in space, woo-hoo, storm attack, yay), while the finale - all be it still a steal - is well constructed and further proof that someone somewhere had the kernel of a good story idea, but it's laborious trite and devoid of the basic film principals - to entertain and engage. So many things wrong here, so much so the names of all involved have been spared. Join this Mission to Mars at your own peril. 4/10

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$90,000,000.00
Revenue
$110,983,407.00
Keywords
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