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Red Planet

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Red Planet

Red Planet is about a future where scientists have sent a specially designed series of different algae to Mars in an effort to give the red planet a breathable atmosphere.  The earth is in serious trouble with overpopulation and dwindling resources.  Terraforming Mars is the perfect solution.  All goes well until suddenly the algae begins to mysteriously disappear.  A mission to Mars is executed to determine what has happened to the algae.  The ship gets there and suffers a disaster at the hands of an unexpected massive solar flare.  While the Captain works on saving the ship the rest of the crew leaves in a drop ship to the planet's surface in case of further disaster.  With the crew is a robot that has been loaned to the crew by the military and when the drop ship suffers its own difficulty the robot is separated from the crew and goes on the defensive.  Now not only do the crew have to deal with the rigors of being on the inhospitable Martian surface but there is a homicidal robot after them.

Red Planet is an effective three pronged story with the Captain trying to fix the ship, the crew trying to complete their mission and find out what happened to the algae, and the fight against the amok robot.  The acting is sort of flat considering the casting of Carrie Anne Moss, and Val Kilmer, who generally do good work.  The script has some good ideas but tends to fall back on Hollywood and science fiction cliches such as a treacherous crew member, and its a certainty that not everyone will die.  Still there is some fair characterisation, a good musical score, and there is enough new and interesting to make the movie stand out.  It is definitely a good rental movie and may have even been worth the full price of theatre admission.

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