Zero gravity.

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

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 30, 2001

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 16, 2001

Atrocious dialogue, gross clichs, absurd plot twists and ludicrous orchestral flourishes.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Feels a lot like a B-movie from the 1950s.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Red Planet isn't as bad as the year's first abysmal Martian movie, Mission to Mars, but it's pretty close.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Red Planet isn't particularly offensive, except in its total mediocrity.

| Jan 1, 2000

Chuck Pfarrer's screenplay feels older than the Martian hills.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Crash-lands in a desert of one-note characters, banal dialogue and a general lack of excitement or tension.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

A hardware-based endurance test that looks spectacular and is only slightly more exciting than a nine-hour cricket match.

| Jan 1, 2000

The next time any movie tells you the Martians are coming, choose the better part of valor: Just duck.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

When a character points out that relationships on the ship are 'like high school,' you may wonder if he means junior high.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Red Planet seems powered by a 'Cool Stuff' aesthetics -- it's full of bits and pieces that don't add up to anything or make much of an impression.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Despite the persuasive scenery, director Antony Hoffman can't figure out a way to build scenes, or momentum, or much of anything.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Any movie that requires this much narration-background, plot line and introductions to each and every character-is as deprived of oxygen as outer space.

| Jan 1, 2000

There's precious little sense of adventure, suspense or excitement and no sense of fun.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

This spaceship misfire manages to be overblown and undernourished at the same time.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jan 1, 2000

What human speech manages to break through the tedious, impenetrable jargon is so compressed and weighted with exposition that it feels more like notes for an outline than actual conversation.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000