So Mission to Mars takes this one.īrian De Palma was no stranger to genre films before helming Mission to Mars with several thrillers and a few horror films among his filmography, but he wasn't a go-to name for big-budget blockbusters. The planet's alien landscape and environment are barely a consideration which is disappointing. Red Planet can't claim the same as some oxygen-farting bugs aside these astronauts may as well be fighting to survive in any of Earth's deserts. Still, the film finds value in Mars itself which is enough to make its story the winner between the two. Mission to Mars delivers a little bit of wonder and cheese in its rough mashup of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and The Abyss (1989), but in addition to being too little too late, its execution also leaves viewers unmoved by its denouement. If the best Mars-centric genre effort is The Martian Chronicles (1980) and the worst is Ghosts of Mars (2001) then these two sit somewhere in between. One is killed in the crash, another is "accidentally" knocked off a cliff, a third is torn apart by the robot, a fourth is eaten by bugs, and the fifth is left to shake his head and summarize the film's theme with "Fuck this planet." Winner: Both films are similar in their initial setup as astronauts head to Mars in the hope of finding it suitable for human development, but they diverge dramatically in what they do once there. Solar flares mess up their day, though, leaving the commander trapped on the orbiting ship while the others crash land on the surface and enter into a deadly game of survival. The team – a female commander and a male crew including an engineer, a biologist, a philosopher, and a killer robot – heads to Mars in search of answers. ![]() Red Planet sends astronauts to Mars on an even more desperate mission as the Earth is severely overpopulated by 2025. Humanity has been sending probes to the planet depositing algae on its surface in an effort to build an atmosphere, but now the oxygen levels are dropping and they don't know why.
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