Red Planet (2000)
6/10
Better than the other Mars flick...
11 March 2001
...but still not very good. The space scenes seem rather boring, and I don't know if it was our theater but everything inside the spaceship seemed to be too dark to see anything.

The good things: Certainly the shootings on Mars. Very stylish version, I liked the red tones and the barren landscape.

The story does not seem to know where it wants to go - there is the main plot about the oxygene and the algae, then there's the mad robot who seems not really to fit into the main plot and then there's Carrie Anne Moss in the orbit fighting for survival - a not very tough fight obviously, because all she has to do is to kick some control panels and voila, everything is online again...

Like the story, the music does have no real focus as well - sometimes it's a classic score, sometimes it's rock music, this simply does not work for a space opera.

Still, it's a movie that's okay to see. Don't expect too much, and you will have some decent entertainment...
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