A vanilla but fun science fiction story blended with limp wrist campness; a child's silly yet charming imagination in fruition and transferred directly to screen. The one-note characters can do no wrong, they are just cheeky smiles and starry eyed winks—all traits humorously stemmed from saluting patriotism ("Ammeeerrrica") and pride in quick-dashes of advancement ("space, fuck yeah!). De Palma's flair is sporadic but compelling in effect, giving a high class sheen to match the huge budget ($90,000,000!); an opening 2+minute tracking shot and a revolving spin inside a spaceship (reminiscent of Kubrick, 2001) are the standouts and heighten this melodrama into something more artistic.

Mission to Mars is basically an A-grade B-movie that has enough adventurous wonder to balance out the cheesy shortcomings. Why the ratings are so low is an oddity to me—maybe at release people hoped for more from such a 'blockbuster'? Well 13 years later with no expectations, it satisfies my science fiction itch just fine.

"It's why we're here."

the sheer suicidal audacity of the manned exploration of space juxtaposed with spiritual risk of being truly connected to someone or something else, both manifestations of our instinctive need to reach out.

You have films that are cheesy-bad and you have films that are cheesy-good. This film, to me, clearly belongs to the latter.

Brian De Palma is a director who's films almost every single time ends up cheesy as hell, but there's some unexplainable cinematic joy to them. Mission To Mars feels like what would have happened if you had let Steven Spielberg direct the last part of 2001. Then it's not a bout depth, but about pure joy, silly and adventurous.

What we have here is not really a single plot, but a pastiche of plots that have been strung together into one long, mysterious and grandiose story line. There are some truly great moments in Mission to Mars. This should not be too surprising with the wonderful cast, big budget, and talented production team.

'It's gonna be up to us to get new motherboards, drives and software to Mars as fast as we can!'

Some computer repairmen go to Mars. En route they have many computer-related problems, like a NASA version of Siri that doesn't quite catch what you say first time and a broken-down spaceship that has to be fixed by turning it off and turning it on again. In a powerful climax, one of the tech guys gets things up and running just in time and shouts 'We are online and LOADING SOFTWARE!'

Aliens and spaceships why did nobody tell me I should watch this before now....oh yeah cause it is horrible.

Some stuff worked okay but overall i was not impressed with anything in the film and had to force myself to finish it simply so I could confirm what I knew was going to happen.

Stay away from this film.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

"It's why we're here."

the sheer suicidal audacity of the manned exploration of space juxtaposed with spiritual risk of being truly connected to someone or something else, both manifestations of our instinctive need to reach out.

Este filme é uma possibilidade muito interessante para a origem de toda a informação.

Space, drank. Casualty, drank. Mars, drank, Mars, drank.

You have films that are cheesy-bad and you have films that are cheesy-good. This film, to me, clearly belongs to the latter.

Brian De Palma is a director who's films almost every single time ends up cheesy as hell, but there's some unexplainable cinematic joy to them. Mission To Mars feels like what would have happened if you had let Steven Spielberg direct the last part of 2001. Then it's not a bout depth, but about pure joy, silly and adventurous.

What we have here is not really a single plot, but a pastiche of plots that have been strung together into one long, mysterious and grandiose story line. There are some truly great moments in Mission to Mars. This should not be too surprising with the wonderful cast, big budget, and talented production team.

While the grand ideas of the film amount to little more than an alien Powerpoint presentation, I find an awful lot to enjoy here. Evoking 2010's sense of there maybe being something rather nice about discovering new worlds, though also indulging in tense and terrifically score set-pieces, the whole thing just hits a tone which I thought was rather lovely. Gary Sinise is a little miscast though the rest of the ensemble do well enough but in all, I have fun with this even if it's a little silly.

A vanilla but fun science fiction story blended with limp wrist campness; a child's silly yet charming imagination in fruition and transferred directly to screen. The one-note characters can do no wrong, they are just cheeky smiles and starry eyed winks—all traits humorously stemmed from saluting patriotism ("Ammeeerrrica") and pride in quick-dashes of advancement ("space, fuck yeah!). De Palma's flair is sporadic but compelling in effect, giving a high class sheen to match the huge budget ($90,000,000!); an opening 2+minute tracking shot and a revolving spin inside a spaceship (reminiscent of Kubrick, 2001) are the standouts and heighten this melodrama into something more artistic.

Mission to Mars is basically an A-grade B-movie that has enough adventurous wonder to balance out the cheesy shortcomings. Why the ratings are so low is an oddity to me—maybe at release people hoped for more from such a 'blockbuster'? Well 13 years later with no expectations, it satisfies my science fiction itch just fine.