In the near future, Earth is dying. A new colony on Mars could be humanity's only hope. A team of American astronauts, each a specialist in a different field, is making the first manned expedition to the red planet and must struggle to overcome the differences in their personalities, backgrounds and ideologies for the overall good of the mission. When their equipment suffers life-threatening damage and the crew must depend on one another for survival on the hostile surface of Mars, their doubts, fears and questions about God, man's destiny and the nature of the universe become defining elements in their fates. In this alien environment they must come face to face with their most human selves...

MOVIE REVIEW

Mars has always been the subject of science fiction, and twice it has been in 2000. The first movie was Mission to Mars, the second being Red Planet. Mission to Mars was a 2001-esque "thriller" that I for the most part liked but mostly everyone else hated. And now, looking back, I think that I would bash Mission to Mars if I saw it again. Either way, Red Planet is the current Mars movie, and it is trying to be everything that Mission to Mars wasn't. It fails. Miserably.
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