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| NZone |
(3 out of 5 stars) "There is little escape from American culture in today’s world." more... |
| CinemaSense |
"An interesting near future space exploration story feels more like a documentary than a feature action film." more... |
| CNN.com: 'Mission to Mars' self-destructs |
"...takes bad to a whole new level. This film is mind boggling and stupid, a derivative piece of doo-doo that's an embarrassment for all involved." more... |
| culturevulture.net |
"'Mission to Mars' is not the perfunctory piece of action-packed hackwork one might have expected from the previews. It's more peculiar than awful - though at times, it is awful indeed." more... |
| E! Online |
(grade: C+) "...essentially 'Apollo 13 Goes to Mars.'" more... |
| Flick Filosopher: Science Porn |
"When Mars Pathfinder landed on the red planet a few years ago, I was glued to the TV, eagerly awaiting those first pictures from the surface of that alien planet, and I was just as ecstatic as the scientists in mission control when grainy, low-resolution, black-and-white images started coming through." more... |
| goodauthority |
"Brian DePalma's 'Mission to Mars' isn't a great movie. It's not even a good movie." more... |
| James Berardinelli |
(1 out of 4 stars) "Ineptly directed, badly acted, and scripted with an eye towards stupidity and incoherence, the film is worthwhile only to those who are in desperate need of a nap." more... |
| JoBlo's Movie Emporium |
(4 out of 10) "Extremely underwhelming is the best way to describe this movie." more... |
| Moviebodega |
(C+) "The aspirations were high. In his first venture into the sci-fi genre, director Brian De Palma has created a film that clearly mimics the slow, majestic wonders of '2001: A Space Odyssey.'" more... |
| Nitrate Online |
"'Mission to Mars' is the film '2001' would have been, had it been made in today's studio system. However, since I know that quote will probably be taken out of context and bandied about as though it were a rave review, I must qualify my words..." more... |
| Orlando Weekly: De Palma's silly waste of space |
(2.5 out of 5) "...[with] melodramatic scripting better suited to daytime television." more... |
| PopMatters |
"Fifty years, several moonshots, and thousands of orbital missions later, Brian De Palma's 'Mission to Mars' reminds us that the practice of shooting terrestrial metaphors into space is pretty durable." more... |
| Radio Free Entertainment |
"The only thing worse than its dimwitted characters is its sloppy execution. What should have been an interesting theory about the origin of man turns out to be an inept lump of sci-fi cliche." more... |
| Salon: In space, no one can hear you jeer |
"This isn't merely a big-budget dud with a name director; it's the sort of spectacularly misguided A-list movie that invites superlatives. Is it worse than 'Ishtar'?" more... |
| San Jose Mercury News: De Palma directs one for the whole family |
"Though unapologetically old-fashioned and corny, 'Mission' still has its share of nail-biter moments." more... |
| Spliced Online: 'Mission:' Impugnable |
"Director Brian DePalma's career has been sustained by making audiences remember the one or two ingenious scenes he slips into his otherwise mediocre movies." more... |
| Variety |
"In this elaborate, highfalutin space opera, Hollywood proves just as inept as NASA has been lately in coping with our neighboring planet." more... |
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