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Red Planet

2000

Antony Hoffman

Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Benjamin Bratt ...

4.9

9,625

Sci-Fi In the near future, Earth is dying. A new colony on Mars could be humanity's only hope. A team of American astronauts, each a specialist in a different field, is making the first manned expedition to the red planet and must struggle to overcome the differences in their personalities, backgrounds and ideologies for the overall good of the mission. When their equipment suffers life-threatening damage and the crew must depend on one ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"A leaden, skimpily plotted space-age Outward Bound adventure with vague allegorical aspirations that remain entirely unrealized."	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"I like its emphasis on situation and character (...) The acting is serviceable (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"As dull and arid as a hike through the desert, which is essentially what the film documents (...) [A] staggering lack of dramatic incident and narrative excitement"	NEG
United Kingdom	Mark Dinning Empire	"We are treated to a script of quite startling ineptitude (...) Universally mediocre and uniformly unforgettable (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Ben Falk BBC	"Any potentially engaging scenes are utterly botched by director Antony Hoffman (...) The cast are stuck with a dead-end script and a boring plot (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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