Mission to Mars

Pros: Marginal suspense, talented cast
Cons: Boring, slow, stiff, and a rip off of all great sci-fi

With a terrific cast and some above average special effects, Mission to Mars should have been, if nothing else, watchable. But the howlingly silly dialogue and some very wooden performances, along with a very misdirected story, turn it into a cheesy,...

Pros: Great sound and effects
Cons: The music...UHHH

I hate it when movie previews give the whole movie away, and Mission To Mars is one of them. If you watch the previews then you know which three characters get to go see all the weird stuff. The previews also show an alien...don't spoil it for us!
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Pros: DePalma still knows how to compose a screen and how to create tension
Cons: The script: "The Horror! The Horror!"

Along the Hollywood Boulevard of Lost Careers (Demi Moore, Sylvester Stallone and John Travolta—who’s now squandered his second chance) lies a broken and bleeding Brian DePalma, the once-great director of Carrie, Dressed to Kill and The...

Pros: Tim Robbins escapes the film when his character dies.
Cons: He didn't bring cyanide pills for the audience.

For reasons that are entirely too amusing to be believable, I was once trapped with a Texas beauty queen in the cab of a beat-up pickup truck that was making its way over dirt roads at a frustratingly bumpy twenty-five miles an hour. We both knew we...

Pros: Good family movie
Cons: A little slow at times

Okay folks, I’m going to make this review short and simple.

I call “Mission to Mars” a “feel good” movie. Why? While watching “Mission to Mars” I felt that I was revisiting scenes from movies like ”Armageddon” and...

Pros: Not completely Sci-Fi, closer to reality is feasible
Cons: A little slow in a couple of parts, better story development

What perfect timing for this movie’s release! Brian De Palma leads our imaginations on a wild journey. He has a good cast, but without a lot of big named stars. Gary Sinise appears to be one of the more prolific actors in the movie. He has been in a...

Pros: Looks good at times, reminds viewers of actually good science fiction.
Cons: The script, pretty much everything else.

Hi there. My name is Brian De Palma. You may know me from some of the movies I’ve directed. I’d prefer that you think of me in terms of my successes: The Untouchables, Scarface, Carlito’s Way, to name a few. Remember Carrie, with Sissy...

Pros: very occasional sci-fi fun
Cons: a slow, plodding movie that never comes together

Following in the footsteps of other very original Hollywood ideas like the asteroid movie (which gave us Armageddon, Deep Impact and a buttload of TV movies in a matter of weeks) and the volcano movie (which produced Dante's Peak and...

Pros: Uh,....uh,....uh....
Cons: May cause short circuits in brain synapses in vulnerable people, and why is Mars so orange?

Imagine yourself in a darkened theater while a movie you'd really been looking forward to rolls across the screen. Only a few minutes have gone by, but the picture is turning out to be pretty horrible, so all around you, people are starting to get up...

Pros: Nice Visuals
Cons: The Score, Dialogue, Acting

Brian De Palma is going to take a lot of heat for his latest Mr. Hankey, "Mission To Mars". It's such a wannabe "2001" it's pathetic. Just like De Palma is a wannabe Hitchcock, Kubrick...and any other director that had an original...

Pros: None!
Cons: boring, waste of time and money, puts you to sleep

My husband and I decided to watch a movie this evening. We looked through our choices on Pay-Per-View and chose Mission to Mars. This movie starred Don Cheadle, Elise Neal, Gary Sinise, Jerry O'Connell and Tim Robbins. We had seen the previews and...

Pros: Cool visuals and images
Cons: horrible ending, weak dialogue/characters

For some reason, when I saw the previews for this film, I was actually excited and anticipated a decent movie. After viewing the film, however, I was deeply disappointed. Mission to Mars has some decent scenes in the film with some good aspects,...

Pros: Animation
Cons: Everything else

In spite of some fine actors, Tim Robbins and Gary Sinise, and some fascinating special effects, I can't get behind this movie. The fantasy aspect centers around a fictional NASA group willing to finance this trip. Who are we kidding? Without revenue, no...

Pros: Kubrick might be impressed...
Cons: ...while he's rolling over in his grave.

It really took awhile to peg exactly how this movie was going to shake itself out. Would it be an Armageddon space ride, a character drama comprised of cheesy moments, or a dark space odyssey? About two thirds of the way through I finally...

Pros: Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins
Cons: the ending was too hokey

The human elements of Mission to Mars are more compelling than the science fiction and special effects. It's rare that a movie can successfully combine both elements. Armageddon is one movie that managed to weave a love story, as well as a...