Red Planet (2000)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Antony Hoffman

Writers (WGA):

Chuck Pfarrer (story)
Chuck Pfarrer (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

10 November 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Action | Thriller

Tagline:

Not A Sound. Not A Warning. Not A Chance. Not Alone.

Plot:

Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.

Plot Keywords:

Mars | Future | Infra Red | Space | Dismemberment

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Val Kilmer	...	Robby Gallagher
Carrie-Anne Moss	...	Cmdr. Kate Bowman
Tom Sizemore	...	Dr. Quinn Burchenal
Benjamin Bratt	...	Lt. Ted Santen
Simon Baker	...	Chip Pettengill
Terence Stamp	...	Dr. Bud Chantilas

Also Known As:

Mars (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence, brief nudity and language.

Runtime:

106 min

Country:

USA | Australia

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Australia:M | Malaysia:U | Iceland:12 | Argentina:Atp | Chile:TE | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIA | Netherlands:16 | New Zealand:M | Norway:11 | Peru:PT | South Korea:12 | Spain:7 | Sweden:11 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Boral Quarry, Prospect, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Company:

Village Roadshow Pictures

Trivia:

Unlike many other science fiction films, the behavior of fire in zero gravity is quite realistically depicted

Goofs:

Factual errors: Burchenal states that he is an expert in genetics, and yet he asks for A, G, T and P's (supposed to be the four nucleotides in DNA) for doing any job in genetics. However, these are C, A, T and G (this is corrected in the German dubbed version).

Quotes:

[first lines]
Commander Kate Bowman: [narration] By the year 2000 we had begun to over populate, pollute, and poison our planet faster than we could clean it up. We ignored the problem for as long as we could. But we were kidding ourselves. By 2025, we knew we were in trouble. And began to desperately search for a new home - Mars.
Commander Kate Bowman: For the last 20 years we've been sending unmanned probes with algae, bio-engineered to grow there and produce oxygen. We're going to build ourselves an atmosphere we can breathe. And for 20 years it seemed to worked. It looked like we pulled it off. We'd done it. Then all of a sudden, oxygen levels started to drop. We don't know why.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Able Edwards (2004)

Soundtrack:

The Fifth Heaven

" Nice Job Space janitor "

The population of Earth has spent its life taking from it's mother without regards to consequences. The farther man goes into his future, the more aware of his mistakes he becomes. This film is one of a dozen which depicts what will eventually happen to the inhabitants when those mistakes catch up with apathy. The year is 2025 AD and Earth has sent it's first planetary probe to the "Red Planet." It's mission; to discover why it has refused to sustain an artificial atmosphere. A team of six, including a multi-functional, multi-purpose, mechanical robot named 'Amee' is selected and sent. However as the ship approaches its destination, an unexpected solar flare, disrupts the carefully planned mission, forcing the five man crew to eject prematurely to the hostile, lifeless, planet. Now begins an immediate and desperate objective; to stay alive. Val Kilmer is Robby Gallagher, the Machnical Systems Engineer who proves that when machines go bad, it's important to have someone who knows how to fix or combat them. Benjamin Bratt is Lt. Ted Santen, an ego driven pilot who finds it's hard to be humble. Tom Sizemore plays Dr. Quinn Burchenal, who searches for a reason to questions he knows have an answer. Terence Stamp plays Dr. Bud Chantilas, an engrossing astronaut who expects more out of the mission than mere science. Carrie Moss is Kate Bowman and Simon Baker is Chip Pettengill. The film is believable enough and the space crew's enemies are not confided to those expected. One, they brought with them. The further one proceeds into the story the more harrowing the dangers become. ***