: Mission to Mars
Director: Brian DePalma
This was kind of a cross between Apollo 13 and 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s a serious film, a realistic look at a fictional manned mission to Mars. The space ships and the problems the crew run into are handled pretty much the way we’d handle them today (no magical SF inventions here — for instance, the journey takes six months one way). However, that serious approach clashed with the occasional technical inaccuracies: clouds and wind on Mars? astronaut takes off helmet but doesn’t explode?
The plot is simple enough: a strange force on Mars destroys the original mission crew, so a rescue crew heads to Mars to find out what happened. Of course they find evidence of Martians — aliens who lived there long ago. Ho hum, and farfetched. However, I still like the film. It’s more lightweight than it wants to be, and some of the drama is rather contrived, but it’s still interesting and occasionally rivoting. Not great but not terrible.
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