Red Planet (2000)

Director:

Antony Hoffman

Writers (WGA):

Chuck Pfarrer (story)
Chuck Pfarrer (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

10 November 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Action | Thriller

Tagline:

Not A Sound. Not A Warning. Not A Chance. Not Alone.

Plot:

Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.

Plot Keywords:

Mars | Future | Infra Red | Space | Dismemberment

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Val Kilmer	...	Robby Gallagher
Carrie-Anne Moss	...	Cmdr. Kate Bowman
Tom Sizemore	...	Dr. Quinn Burchenal
Benjamin Bratt	...	Lt. Ted Santen
Simon Baker	...	Chip Pettengill
Terence Stamp	...	Dr. Bud Chantilas

Also Known As:

Mars (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence, brief nudity and language.

Runtime:

106 min

Country:

USA | Australia

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Australia:M | Malaysia:U | Iceland:12 | Argentina:Atp | Chile:TE | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIA | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:M | Norway:11 | Peru:PT | South Korea:12 | Spain:7 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Boral Quarry, Prospect, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Company:

Village Roadshow Pictures

Trivia:

Many of the Mars scenes were filmed on location in Wadi Rum, Jordan, which is a several-mile-long desert valley.

Goofs:

Factual errors: The orbiter would be in darkness only for a few hours while orbiting Mars, not for the entire Martian night.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Commander Kate Bowman: [narration] By the year 2000 we had begun to over populate, pollute, and poison our planet faster than we could clean it up. We ignored the problem for as long as we could. But we were kidding ourselves. By 2025, we knew we were in trouble. And began to desperately search for a new home - Mars.
Commander Kate Bowman: For the last 20 years we've been sending unmanned probes with algae, bio-engineered to grow there and produce oxygen. We're going to build ourselves an atmosphere we can breathe. And for 20 years it seemed to worked. It looked like we pulled it off. We'd done it. Then all of a sudden, oxygen levels started to drop. We don't know why.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Triple-X Tom (2005) (V)

Soundtrack:

When the World Is Running Down (You Can't Go Wrong)

Yes its is Sci Fi and Its not a bad movie! But not a great movie.

While there are some mistakes made in the science parts of the movie. The movie is not that bad as indicated by a large number of viewers. Having watched both Mission to Mars and Red Planet back to back thanks to the SciFi channel M2M is not as good as Red Planet. Having watched M2M 3 times now, I would recommend RP 1st. It is a nice twist of the 1950s B grade sci-fi movies.

Overall I would recommend the movie. I did enjoy Tom Sizemore and Val Kilmer. Moss's role was limited in imho and the cast was limited as it was. The movie would probably been much better if 1.) the movie had taken more time to tell the story and 2.) there had been a better job of editing.

Pros: cinema-photography, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, sci-fi, Cons: Lack of character development, a few sci-fact goofs (the space fire is not a goof); film editing.