In the near future Earth is dying. A new colony on Mars could be humanitys 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 mans 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.
Review
Looking at the other comments i think people really have a hatred to scifi films at the mo. I know that Mission to Mars was bad id be the 1st to admit that......but that doesnt mean that all other scifi films are going to be bad. Last year we had Pitch Black which i thought was okay.........and we had Red Planet.
Red Planet came with a reasonably large budget a really superior cast to Mission to Mars and absolutely great special effects. The main story line in itself is not ground breaking but the sub plots within the film give the film its real grip!
A crew of 4 astranauts and 2 science officers agree to board a mission into building a new home on mars through the aid of making it a breathable atmosphere through the aid of planting algae.
Then in comes your usual suprises the spacecraft that their in hits critical conditions causing them to land on Mars earlier than they wanted to and therefore building a storyline of what they are going to do to get back to earth.
The sub plot involving the crews relationship between pentigill who was a last minute choice for the mission is excellent. Simon Baker plays the character excellently and you never know wether to trust him or hate him. The special effects on the robot AMEE were outstanding aswell this created the suspence part of the film.
I gave this film 910 because i love scifi and i thought that it was well acted and had a really decent storyline.