Review of Mission to Mars

Not awful but not great. The excellent, talented cast (particularly Sinise and Robbins) deserved better writing; sometimes the script is annoyingly shallow. The logic of the denouement has holes in it but you kind of like it anyway (but that sappy music in the ending scenes should be scrapped). An adventurous feast for the eyes that made me think of "Contact" and "Close Encounters"; despite its flaws I went to see it a second time.