I'd rather have a Snickers...... (Flight to Mars (DVD))

Member Name: Maximus-Qualitus

Product:	Flight to Mars (DVD)
Date:	22/07/09 (46 review reads)
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Advantages: Sci-Fi

Disadvantages: Nonesense

Flight to Mars.
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This film was in a similar vein to 'the first men in the moon' by H.G Wells, but not written anywhere nearly as well.

A spaceship, with all of Earth latest technology, is launched to Mars with the hope of one day colonising the dead planet.

However once there the crew meet live Martians who are very unfriendly and want to steal and use Earths technology in order to launch their own attack on us.
They plan to invade and take the Earth over as their world is completely spent of all its resources. The scientist aboard the ship must come up with ingenious plans and devices to thwart the Martians all the while shadowed by the obligatory wise cracking reporter that always seemed to accompany space explorers in these films.
You can easily guess the outcome, no twists or turns just them as the baddies and us as the good guys.

There is of course a love interest and she does most of the high pitched screaming throughout the film.

Oh one more thing the Martians look exactly like us, what a pity. Clearly the special effects budget was minimal. Even the Martians ray guns are a bit sad.
Cheap tacky spaceship sets and even worse 'special effects' a term I use in its loosest term.
The plot is ok, just, and the film does chug along at a fair pace. The dialog is a bit poor but all in all it is not that bad a movie.

Worth watching the once
DVD Info: Only chapter selection

Greg

Summary: Don't go out of your way.