An average movie

To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this movie  and maybe I should give it another shot at some point, or maybe not. Basically, back in 2000, they released 2 movies dealing with Mars, this movie and ‘Red Planet’ and even though you might have expected one of them to succeed, both of them were poorly received and failed at the box-office. Well, with this in mind, I didn’t expect much from this flick but, to be honest, I thought it was not so bad after all. I mean, it wasn’t ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, that’s for sure, butI thought it was visually decent and the story was fairly entertaining. The fact that I always had a weak spot for such adventures in space probably made me give this movie a few extra points. Furthermore, any movie starring Tim Robbins and Don Cheaddle, even when they are poorly used like here, can’t be completely worthless. Basically, the only real issue with this movie is that, even though there were a few interesting ideas, they never knew if it should be something smart or some brainless entertainment so they awkwardly landed in the middle with some rather mixed end-result. To conclude, even though it has a rather lame reputation, I thought it was a decent watch but you shouldn’t expect much before watching the damned thing.