| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
To like that kind of story is to like this kind of movie.
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| 67 |
Austin Chronicle
I 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.
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| 60 |
LA Weekly
Greg Burk
A fun movie. Not scary-fun. If you're a male over 10 years old, that should be enough.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
It does boast loads of cool gadgetry and some impressive special effects. It's not much, but at least the movie always gives you something to look at.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
It stars the striking Moss, that fierce beauty from "The Matrix," as the sternest, sexiest babe in space since Sigourney Weaver's Lieutenant Ripley.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Fails to generate the elementary visceral thrills we've come to expect from science-fiction thrillers, let alone a compelling human drama.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
When it comes to special effects, the filmmakers have spared no expense. But when it comes to the story, audiences have been shortchanged.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Watch out for space junk.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
Good-looking and empty.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
The slogan for Red Planet could be "In space no one can hear you yawn."
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
Watching the movie, it's hard to imagine why anyone would dream of going back there.
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| 40 |
Salon.com
Isn't particularly offensive, except in its total mediocrity.
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| 40 |
Slate
Dull-witted.
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| 40 |
Film.com
Moss -- in her first big role since "The Matrix" -- is the main reason to see Red Planet, a badly written and visually scenic space opus.
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| 40 |
Dallas Observer
Visit Red Planet, and you'll boldly go where everyone has gone before.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
Overblown, ridiculously contrived drive-in flick.
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| 38 |
Mr. Showbiz
The characters aren't convincingly written, rarely if ever behave like believable humans, and consequently don't matter to us in the least.
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| 38 |
USA Today
You can always judge a sci-fi thriller by its aliens. What does Planet offer -- Space roaches.
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| 38 |
New York Post
Isn't as bad as the year's first abysmal Martian movie, "Mission to Mars," but it's pretty close.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
I don't know the actual budget of this adventure yarn, but it feels like a middle-range effort whose heart is with the bargain-basement offerings of yesteryear.
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| 30 |
Village Voice
A pale, patchy amalgam of the year's two unfairly reviled interplanetary adventures, "Supernova" and "Mission to Mars," the lunkheaded Red Planet distinguishes itself with a touching pretense of scientific veracity.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
A leaden, skimpily plotted space-age Outward Bound adventure with vague allegorical aspirations that remain entirely unrealized.
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| 25 |
Boston Globe
The question in Red Planet isn't whether there's any life on Mars, but whether there's any life in the film. The answer is no.
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| 25 |
Christian Science Monitor
Crash-lands as disastrously as the heroes and never quite recovers its wits.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
Pfarrer's screenplay feels older than the Martian hills.
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| 20 |
Variety
As dull and arid as a hike through the desert.
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| 0 |
San Francisco Chronicle
There still is no life on Mars. Red Planet is airless.
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