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In response to
"Both of them sucked. -- nm"
by
Reagen
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My review of Mission to Mars via the Way Back Machine.
Posted by
Qale (aka Qale)
Feb 28 '13, 11:33
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Welcome to every Sci-Fi flick you've ever seen.
That's what you get when you plunk down your hard earned cash to see Brian De Palma's latest heartbreaker starring Gary Sinise, Jerry O'Connell, Tim Robbins.
Those last three people are known as actors in the buisness. They are usually hired to act. However, we are treated to a masterpiece of cliches and stilted dialouge brought to us by those three actors.
We know they can do it. We've seen them! But alas, De Palma is more in love with all the freaky ass things he can do with a camera while attempting to tell an amazing story about how life on Earth has something to do with mysteries on Mars.
I would have probably bought into that premise too if it weren't screwed up so badly by said cliches and bad acting. (Which, like I said, is more due to bad direction and bad writing than anything else.)
What you do have in "Mission to Mars" is a mission that is headed by Don Cheadle's character. They run into something interesting on the nifty Mars landscape, run into some special effects stolen directly from "The Mummy", yadda yadda yadda they are all dead by Don Cheadle. (Who de-evolves into a monkey during the course of a spending a year alone on Mars waiting for the second half of the movie.)
Cue second half of the movie.
Rescue mission becomes a mission in peril and the rest of the crew ends up on Mars. (You know, after one of those cheesy, "I must die to save you all" moments.) Then all of a sudden people realize what the interesting thing on Mars is and how to interact with it.
Even more sudden is the final downhill plunge this movie takes as they show Martians in all their glory. Credits roll, crowd cheers -- that the movie is finally over.
Mission to Mars: D
What was bad about it?: 135 minutes of crap leading up to someting that could have been much, much better. Plus all of the above..
What wasn't that bad about it?: Mars looked real. Zero gravity looks cool.
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