
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 another for survival on the hostile surface of... (Full plot summary below)
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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 another for survival on the hostile surface of Mars, their doubts, fears and questions about God, man's destiny and the nature of the universe become defining elements in their fates. In this alien environment they must come face to face with their most human selves.
Leave your thoughts about Red Planet.
| Matinee MagazineChuck RudolphAs B films go, Red Planet has its heart in the right place. |
| Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)Jeffrey WesthoffRed Planet's lack of original ideas locks it into a decaying orbit. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertTo like that kind of story is to like this kind of movie. |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin PutmanOne of the most involving and well-made space-set thrillers since Ridley Scott's 1979 opus, Alien. |
| Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionEleanor Ringel CaterEarly on, Lucy informs the crew there's been a 'failure to engage.' I think she was talking about the movie. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThis one's a nuts-and-bolts sci-fier that looks good but its dialogue is just terrible... |
| Austin ChronicleRussell SmithI loved this movie. Or perhaps I should say the 15-year-old boy in me -- the dreamy, disaffected misfit with his head in the stars and a stack of Bantam sci-fi paperbacks as his sole defense against small-town boredom -- loved it. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatRed Planet convincingly demonstrates that the shadow side of science is scary - very scary indeed. |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxIn a choice of lesser evils, you could do a whole lot worse... While it never climbs very high, it survives because we know how much further it could fall. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenA leaden, skimpily plotted space-age Outward Bound adventure with vague allegorical aspirations that remain entirely unrealized. |