Review by maestro-14

I keep thinking about that commercial for 7-UP (or was it Sprite or Mt. Dew?) where the movie execs sit around a table, trying to sell a movie to the head honcho. They tell him about the film-inspired kid's meals, toys, clothes, rap music, etc, but when he asks about a script, they say they can crank out something by Friday. "Mission to Mars" was the result.

Maybe I expected too much. But wait... we're talking about a movie with Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, directed by Brian De Palma... shouldn't I have expected a great movie?

I can't rag on M2M for everything, though. The first hour and change was really pretty good. Visually stunning and generally suspenseful. The "dance" scene was quite good, as was the landing attempt sequence. Then after that, M2M just died a slow, painful death.

Anyway, for those of you still deciding, I won't give away any plot details. Some of you may like this odd creation. But in my opinion, it was, in a word, "cheesy".