Mars (1997)
6/10
"There are no children on Mars"
2 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
A security man goes to Mars to investigate the death of his brother and while there helps with the uncovering of the reason why people are falling ill. It's a simple plot and reminds one of several other Mars based films but It moves along speedily and the plentiful action scenes are OK.

The acting.... Olivier Gruner is robotic (In fact at first I thought he was an android) as the hero Caution Templer, Lindsey Ginter over hams it hilariously as the support villain Ike Ringo, Shari Belafonte looks nice in white underwear as Doc Halliday and Gabriel Dell Jr. was so darned annoying as hyper active Buckskin Greenberg that I hoped someone would off him early on in the movie, but alas he survives to the end. Though I did like Scott Valentine as grizzled Pete the Hermit and Alex Hyde-White as the oily corporate head Phillip Clement.

There is a moving scene when the reason for the lack of children on Mars is explained but apart from that this is not a film to lodge in the memory.
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