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      Red Planet Mars

      1952 1h 27m Sci-Fi List
      33% 6 Reviews Tomatometer 27% 100+ Ratings Audience Score Husband-and-wife scientists (Peter Graves, Andrea King) pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars. Read More Read Less

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      Matt Brunson Film Frenzy “God is an American,” David Bowie once sang, and that sentiment can be viewed in a less ironic manner in this stodgy sci-fi flick that only comes to life during its final 15 minutes. Rated: 2/4 Feb 8, 2024 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Spectacularly awful. Rated: 0/4.0 Sep 21, 2020 Full Review Rob Humanick Suite101.com Achieves genuine science fiction with a nearly entire absence of sci-fi subjects on screen. Rated: 4/5 Oct 28, 2011 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Jul 14, 2005 Full Review Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Tedious McCarthyesque nonsense as sci-fi. Rated: 1/5 Nov 12, 2002 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews One of the most obnoxious sci-fi films ever. Rated: D Sep 20, 2001 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Ronald D Religious mumbo-jumbo wrapped up as science fiction. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 06/17/23 Full Review Audience Member The core of this earth bound movie is its well designed script containing ideas placing it well above your average science fiction fare, then as well as now. Although it plays like an adapted theatrical play, Red Planet Mars delivers bang for the buck. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member This, frankly, is a hard movie to rate just as a movie. It asks questions most of us today prefer to remain usasked. It raises various prejudices to the surface. I first aw it on TV as a child. Less than ten years of age. I didn't understand it fully, but it none the less left a mark on me -- and a desire to see it again. Something I just recently did after some time searching for it by theme, not remembering the film's actual name. It is easy to write off this film as part of some early `50s paranoia. But the fears and concerns of those times were not *just* paranoia, as an honest look at history reveals. Nor is the film shallow and one-sided. No, its storyline asks us ask questions of ourselves and of our values -- just as the film characters have to ask questions of themselves, and see contradictions in their own points of view. Hollywood would never make this film today. The media would scream in anger, and some in the population would feel very threatened if some indi film maker did do so. I like to ask myself questions. Yes, even when I am less than satisfied with the answers such question put in my mind -- even as just "possibilities." So, again, this is a hard film to simply review. I wish more films fell into that category. Sometimes I'm simply sick and tired of all the 'easy answers' we are today expected to simply accept. Worth a view? Absolutely! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Idiotic beyond words, illogical, zero special effects--Could not even believe how lame brained stupid this wretched garbage was. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member I've finally found Donald Trump's campaign outline :) Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review don s For a sci-fi movie, this had an extremely noticeable lack of effects. In an era with television and telephone, the US is trying to speak to Mars using not images or voices, but Morse code. A whole lot of pseudo-scientific gobbledygook comes out of Peter Graves, making an already action-less movie even duller. This amounts to a bunch of talking heads with heavily religious overtones smacking you in the face so hard you'd think they used a sledgehammer. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis Husband-and-wife scientists (Peter Graves, Andrea King) pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars.
      Director
      Harry Horner
      Genre
      Sci-Fi
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 5, 2017
      Runtime
      1h 27m