Establishes an amusingly nasty pecking order once it reaches the surface and even morphs into "Predator" for a hot minute. But it generally bears the anonymous aesthetics of an assembly-line product and is the uglier of 2000's dueling Mars films.

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

There are plenty of elements to the story, and it even manages to throw in a shipboard romance before the credits roll. But more plot frippery does make for a more hospitable Red Planet.

| Mar 11, 2020

Better than you remember.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 8, 2011

What could have been regarded as a good monster flick turned into a biblical and preachy flick.

| Apr 29, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Zero gravity.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 18, 2008

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 30, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | May 14, 2003

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

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

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 30, 2002

Red Planet's lack of original ideas locks it into a decaying orbit.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 16, 2002

Even when the astronauts are running out of oxygen, they still insist on espousing their theories about life, science and God. Had the movie any sexual or racial tension, it could pass itself off as "The Real World: Mars."

| Jun 15, 2002

The film’s dearth of imagination is nowhere more evident than in the flat, tepid dialogue.

| Original Score: C- | May 8, 2002

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

As B films go, Red Planet has its heart in the right place.

| Original Score: short | Mar 7, 2002

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 30, 2001

In a choice of lesser evils, you could do a whole lot worse... While it never climbs very high, it survives because we know how much further it could fall.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 24, 2001

Yawn. Another boring trip to Mars.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 10, 2001