Red Planet

Starring: Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Benjamin Bratt, et al.

In the near future, Earth is dying. A new colony on Mars could be humanity's only hope. A team of American astronauts, each a specialist in a different field, is making the first manned expedition to the red planet and must struggle to overcome the differences in their personalities, backgrounds and ideologies for the overall good of the mission. When their equipment suffers life-threatening damage and the crew must depend on one another for survival on the hostile surface of Mars, their doubts, fears and questions about God, man's destiny and the nature of the universe become defining elements in their fates. In this alien environment they must come face to face with their most human selves.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 085391895428
• Release Date: March 2001
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: Warner Home Video
• Director: Hoffman, Antony
• Starring: Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Benjamin Bratt, Carrie-Anne Moss, Simon Baker, Terrence Stamp
• Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Popular actors, standard formula, and passes time well.

If you are looking for some exotic space creature like Sigourney Weaver, or even Jane Fonda. Then this is not the movie for you. The closest it comes to this is the obligatory shower scene. If you are looking for big, ugly killer creatures or space pirates, again, this movie is not for you. What this movie does contain is the popular actors of this time. One popular actor included but overlooked in a lot of reviews is Benjamin Bratt ...Ted Santen, who shows up again in "Miss Congeniality" (2000), where he seems to have gotten a much higher rating. The movie is a formula with a standard mix of personalities. The Mission is like all the others. There is a compelling need to go to Mars. Naturally, disaster strikes. Some sacrifice some good guys, maybe some bad guys, a few anticipated suppress, and AMEE knows the way to a man's heart. The DVD has some outtakes that you may find enhance the film, and then again, the scenes may have been taken out for good reason. There is no running commentary. I am not going to transliterate the story. If you watch it for fun, then you should not be disappointed.