Science fiction has to offer a lot of action for your idea and shouldn’t please not be limited to Earth alone? Then you can stream a crunchy genre triiste with “Red Planet”.
Yes, you will agree to the first 20 minutes of the term at the latest: “Red Planet” is exciting, but in terms of action and level of the dialogues, it has not really much to offer, which – slightly modified – would not have seen somewhere else. But a film is more than just his story. Otherwise we could just read a book. Visually, in terms of sound technology and especially in terms of the atmosphere offered Antony Hoffman namely something really. On top of that, it also offers a bunch of popular mimic. Are these enough reasons for you to look in the future actioner?
“”Red Planet“For a few euros, as a video-on-demand with providers such as Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, MagentaTV or Maxdome is available for a few euros:
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In the leading roles you can expect “Top Gun”-, “The Doors”-and “Batman Forever” star Val Kilmer and “The Matrix” amazon Carrie-Anne Moss. Stood at your side Tom Sizemore (“The soldier James Ryan”), Benjamin Bratte (“Traffic”), “The Mentalist” title hero Simon Baker and Hollywood veteran Terence Stamp (“Superman 1+2”) in front of the camera.
“Red Planet”: This is the story
2050: Due to extreme air pollution, the earth will soon no longer be a habitat for humanity. That is why resourceful scientists have developed oxygen -producing algae. These are shot in masses on the Mars with remote -directed rockets in order to create an atmosphere in which we can live and breathe.
First of all, the project promises to be a resounding success. But then the algae suddenly disappeared without a trace and the plan threatens to fail. To prevent this and look what could have gone, NASA sends a manned mission to Mars. However, the crew gets into tangible difficulties before landing when a solar storm badly damages its spaceship and a disaster on …
A real red planet
Due to the narrative defects mentioned at the beginning, the film generated a not exactly overwhelming press echo in its global cinema start 2000/2001 – see also our only Average 2.5 out of 5 stars.. Genre fans who value visual highlights and a coherent atmosphere will get their money’s worth at “Red Planet”. And that not only because of the scenes on board the spaceship, which are properly on the clean, in which its imaginative staged and gripping emergency enthusiastically enthusiastically enthusiastically in space.
In addition to a lot of CGI technology that was impressive at the time, the film has another optical trump card: terrific alien looking but actually earthly natural scenes. So the majority of the breathtakingly beautiful, but then also terrifying Mars recordings were not created on the computer or in front of Greenscreens, but in the Australian outback and in the Wadi Rum in Jordan, where the red sandstone rocks and desert landscapes can be found very real. By the way, parts of, among other things, were also “Prometheus“,”The Last Days on Mars“,”The Marsian“,”Star Wars 9: Skywalkers’ ascent“And finally”Dune 1+2“Turned.
If you like to think about other times, worlds and scenarios, but still want to see at least a dash of realism, you can really spend the evening with less entertaining sci-fi actioners.
Incidentally, “Red Planet” has a cinematic twin – a title that was produced almost simultaneously by another studio and has great similarities. This is a phenomenon that appears more often in the cinema business than you should think. Do you want to know what the strip is called, who also deals with a mission essential for humanity to our neighboring planet? And/or would you like to read something about other examples from the amazing amount of double distances of this kind? Then click on the following article from Filmstarts editor Michael Bendix:
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This is an updated re -publication of an article already published on film start.
