Mission to Mars is not a shoot-out, Independence Day-type space movie.

It's more a thinker flick, with enough edge of your seat nail-biting scenes to make it worthwhile.

This movie's best features are unpredictability, special effects, and the sound is just outstanding. I was totally entertained all the way.

Yes, it's another trip to the angry red planet, but this time it's a rescue mission.

Borrowing heavily from George Pal, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, and Ron Howard, Brian De Palma FINALLY breaks away from his tributes to Alfred Hitchcock.

An average film with dynamite special effects, ruined by a bad script and a completely stupid ending.

Mission to Mars is basically a soap opera set in outer space.The director's dazzling-to-daffy film is a fun throw-back to the '50s, when Hollywood was just getting serious about space exploration. The story's mostly focused on untidy melodrama.

This highly motivated spaced-out movie is a mysterious fantasy about a rescue mission to the red planet. If you keep your tongue in cheek you can enjoy this blockbuster.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand the dialog, which gets lost in mystical mumbo-jumbo, but if you keep your sense of humor there's bound to be something in this mixed bag of visual effects for most of the family to experience.

This picture has a space opera ending that is absolutely loony, and I think it's worth the price of admission to figure out the conclusion.