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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L.A. Weekly
L.A. Weekly
A fun movie. Not scary-fun. If you're a male over 10 years old, that should be enough.
A leaden, skimpily plotted space-age Outward Bound adventure with vague allegorical aspirations that remain entirely unrealized.
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Village VoiceDennis Lim
Village VoiceDennis Lim
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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Boston GlobeJay Carr
Boston GlobeJay Carr
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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Washington PostDesson Thomson
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Pfarrer's screenplay feels older than the Martian hills.