Derivative, weak, and needlessly simplistic.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jul 7, 2021

A sedate, mournful, yet optimistic journey to the stars.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2021

Swerves into irreversible stupidity down the stretch, generally plays like a half-formed prequel to "Ancient Aliens," and ends like a Disney ride version of "Ad Astra." But Brian De Palma's hand is all over the sustained tension of the second act.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 30, 2020

This should be so much better than it is but feels like 3 movies mashed into one and it doesn't work

| Aug 8, 2020

...despite the repeated sentimental trope of true loves lost, the film loses its simple humanity along the way, and it never fills the void with either the action or humor that have long been the saving grace of filmic space operas.

| Mar 11, 2020

So-so sci-fi; may be too intense for some kids.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 26, 2010

Whatever's shoddy or limp about Mission to Mars, however conspicuous while the film unfolds, all becomes admirably pale as the full viewing experience recedes and the good stuff emerges in proud bas-relief.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 14, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Mission to Mars' redemptive coda opened the door for the subsequent film's continuing figurative and literal sanguinity.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 27, 2006

| Original Score: D | Jul 24, 2006

The race for the worst movie of the year is on!

| May 26, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 0/4 | Aug 23, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Typically, while a good screenplay only requires a single author, this unimaginative, derivative dreck required at least four, even with the massive cribbing from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 8, 2002

There's some throwaway fancy camerawork at the beginning and a repeat of his shock-shot trick from Raising Cain, but otherwise De Palma's own ride appears to be largely on autopilot.

| Dec 2, 2002

The too-many-cooks rule applies to this script, which borrows wantonly from sci-fi classics of the past.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 15, 2002

If Brian DePalma's Mission to Mars were a book, it would have a yellow cover and the title '2001 for Dummies.'

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 3, 2002