I don't think it deserves a 7 nor a 6 though if I could I would rate at 6.7.
I have this movie in my library and I've seen it several times.
Being a hard sci-fi fan this one is one of my favs but I do recognize some serious fails.
What I like is that it's based more on a scientific base rather fantasy like characters, tech, or superhero crap.
Some spoilers from now on.
Movie starts with a an american BBQ party of astronauts that will fly to Mars the next day. All Americans, dialogues are shallow and stupid.
Are these people scientists or a joke?
Super annoying music and finally party ends. And next scene is on a space station. One with spinning ring. Yet inside everything is flat.
So they are not in the ring but the central part of the station and they have artificial gravity. It's a 2000 movie and in 2021 artificial gravity is only a dream untill some time in far far future.
And btw... what they need the spinning ring for? Well it just looks cool I guess. Of course again everything is American the station and everyone.
No international station somehow US alone have the economic power to send missions to Mars and build space stations in the future.
We move to scene where they go to investigate the "face".
Everyone, literally everyone! Every member of the mission abandons the base and go on a mission to happilly explore the mysterious face.
In real life this would never happen. Most crew would stay in base while 2 or 3 would go to investigate.
And now everyone is in front of a mountain that starts to go crazy and extremely dangerous. Do they run? No they just watch untill it's too late to escape and being torn in pieces.
And just one poor guy survives alone on Mars with no way to contact Earth. Despite numerous satellites around the planet. Somehow the "face" blocks communcation and fried all tech.
And we have the rescue mission. A rescue mission that goes disaster mission. More like the "Gravity" movie where everything goes wrong everyone dies. Here it's not that extreme but Hollywood is always too dramatic, avoiding reality and logic.
Astronauts are higly trained professionals they would be able to avoid a disaster the ship would not explode because they would not miss the leak.
And finally Woody would not die because all 3 astronauts together could rescue him.
There are some other minor fails throught the movie but those were the most serious.
At least the rest of the movie get better and fascinating.
The opening of the door to the "face" is like an opening to the future, to a new world. And it is. Humans face for the first time an alien being, even as a hologram.
A presentation of our solar system's history that looks magically beautiful and fascinatiing. The demise of Mars and Martians and the seeding of the Earth. Yet it doesn't explain why they didn't go live on Earth and they just sent the seeds of life. Instead they travelled back to their original galaxy.
The end of course is most rewarding. Jim with no fear decides to board the alien ship, to go and meet our brothers in stars.
Surely a fascinating movie with it's serious flaws.
I have this movie in my library and I've seen it several times.
Being a hard sci-fi fan this one is one of my favs but I do recognize some serious fails.
What I like is that it's based more on a scientific base rather fantasy like characters, tech, or superhero crap.
Some spoilers from now on.
Movie starts with a an american BBQ party of astronauts that will fly to Mars the next day. All Americans, dialogues are shallow and stupid.
Are these people scientists or a joke?
Super annoying music and finally party ends. And next scene is on a space station. One with spinning ring. Yet inside everything is flat.
So they are not in the ring but the central part of the station and they have artificial gravity. It's a 2000 movie and in 2021 artificial gravity is only a dream untill some time in far far future.
And btw... what they need the spinning ring for? Well it just looks cool I guess. Of course again everything is American the station and everyone.
No international station somehow US alone have the economic power to send missions to Mars and build space stations in the future.
We move to scene where they go to investigate the "face".
Everyone, literally everyone! Every member of the mission abandons the base and go on a mission to happilly explore the mysterious face.
In real life this would never happen. Most crew would stay in base while 2 or 3 would go to investigate.
And now everyone is in front of a mountain that starts to go crazy and extremely dangerous. Do they run? No they just watch untill it's too late to escape and being torn in pieces.
And just one poor guy survives alone on Mars with no way to contact Earth. Despite numerous satellites around the planet. Somehow the "face" blocks communcation and fried all tech.
And we have the rescue mission. A rescue mission that goes disaster mission. More like the "Gravity" movie where everything goes wrong everyone dies. Here it's not that extreme but Hollywood is always too dramatic, avoiding reality and logic.
Astronauts are higly trained professionals they would be able to avoid a disaster the ship would not explode because they would not miss the leak.
And finally Woody would not die because all 3 astronauts together could rescue him.
There are some other minor fails throught the movie but those were the most serious.
At least the rest of the movie get better and fascinating.
The opening of the door to the "face" is like an opening to the future, to a new world. And it is. Humans face for the first time an alien being, even as a hologram.
A presentation of our solar system's history that looks magically beautiful and fascinatiing. The demise of Mars and Martians and the seeding of the Earth. Yet it doesn't explain why they didn't go live on Earth and they just sent the seeds of life. Instead they travelled back to their original galaxy.
The end of course is most rewarding. Jim with no fear decides to board the alien ship, to go and meet our brothers in stars.
Surely a fascinating movie with it's serious flaws.