Good evening to all Simon Bakers fans! Have a sunny, relaxing weekend! Maybe it is the right time to promote another movie where Simon Baker had a supporting role and Amanda inspired me to tackle Red Planet, a SF directed by Antony Hoffman and released in American theaters in November 2000. Even if Red Planet got trashed by the critics, I would give it a try and I would watch it sometime in the near future for Simons sake. There’s astonishingly little going on in this tale of six astronauts sent to Mars in 2050 to save the human race from eco-suicide. Crew consists of Kate Bowman (Carrie-Anne Moss), the ultra-competent mission commander; Robby Gallagher (Val Kilmer), flight engineer and Bowman’s soul mate; Quinn Burchenal (Tom Sizemore), lead scientist; Ted Santen (Benjamin Bratt), co-pilot and resident tough guy; Chip Pettengil (Simon Baker), the very young agricultural specialist; Bud Chantilas (Terence Stamp), an aging space cadet who’s still looking for signs of God up in the heavens after many journeys into the beyond. For presumably carefully selected professionals on a joint mission of overweening cosmic importance, this bunch is a motley crew with a pronounced lack of cohesion and camaraderie. Given the shared jeopardy and imminent death they face at any moment, they’re strangely at each others’ throats much of the time. When Pettengil commits an act of treachery, he runs afoul of the mad dog AMEE, the design of which reps one of the few elements here that will set genre fans talking. (Todd McCarthy - Variety) Theres an absurd lack of tension in all of this. Crew members are so stoic about their predicament, youd think their car has broken down on the New Jersey Turnpike. Aside from a useless 15-second flashback between Carrie-Anne Moss and Val Kilmer, theres not an ounce of character development. Screenwriters Jonathan Lemkin and Channing Gibson dont seem to care very much about the astronauts, so its only fitting that the audience shares their lack of enthusiasm. You know youre watching a bad movie when the most interesting performer is a robot that cant even talk. (Paul Tatara - CNN) Text sources: variety/2000/film/reviews/red-planet-1200465579/ edition.cnn/2000/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/10/review.red.planet/index.html
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 20:15:20 +0000
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