Mission To Mars is about a failed Mars mission and the subsequent mission sent to rescue the possible survivors. By all accounts Mars is supposed to be a dead planet. But with the possibility now more strong that there is water on our moon, could Mars be as dead as it appears from earth given our greater powers of observation and recording data.
Don Cheadle leads the first Mars mission and it's to find out what's happened to him that Tim Robbins leads another. The rest of Robbins' four person team is Gary Sinise, Jerry O'Connell, and Connie Nielsen.
Sinise is the big question mark. He's had a lot of personal issues to deal with since the death of his wife, played in flashbacks by Kim Delaney. Director Peter Outerbridge gives him a reluctant OK for the rescue mission at the pleading of Tim Robbins. It turns out to be a fortuitous choice.
The desert of Jordan substituted for the landscape of Mars. Twenty years earlier The Martian Chronicles was shot in our Arizona desert so I'm thinking that labor costs must have risen quite a bit in those twenty years so that the producers probably felt that it would be cheaper to shoot Mission To Mars in a third world country that also happens to be an ally. They do quite nicely, Brian DePalma had some great sets constructed on the Jordanian desert and the cinematography is nice.
A lot is explained in Mission To Mars and not just what happened to Cheadle and company. It includes some of the mysteries of the Universe itself. I'm not sure of the science part whether it would hold up, but it's still entertaining. The players are all well cast in their parts, I wouldn't miss it.
Don Cheadle leads the first Mars mission and it's to find out what's happened to him that Tim Robbins leads another. The rest of Robbins' four person team is Gary Sinise, Jerry O'Connell, and Connie Nielsen.
Sinise is the big question mark. He's had a lot of personal issues to deal with since the death of his wife, played in flashbacks by Kim Delaney. Director Peter Outerbridge gives him a reluctant OK for the rescue mission at the pleading of Tim Robbins. It turns out to be a fortuitous choice.
The desert of Jordan substituted for the landscape of Mars. Twenty years earlier The Martian Chronicles was shot in our Arizona desert so I'm thinking that labor costs must have risen quite a bit in those twenty years so that the producers probably felt that it would be cheaper to shoot Mission To Mars in a third world country that also happens to be an ally. They do quite nicely, Brian DePalma had some great sets constructed on the Jordanian desert and the cinematography is nice.
A lot is explained in Mission To Mars and not just what happened to Cheadle and company. It includes some of the mysteries of the Universe itself. I'm not sure of the science part whether it would hold up, but it's still entertaining. The players are all well cast in their parts, I wouldn't miss it.