"Mission..." offers the audience a good cast, good special effects, good sets, some excellent production talent, and an interesting story. It builds from a hokey backyard barbecue opening to an outer space technodrama and waxes in the denouement to a ponderous fantasy. Overall the flick is solid entertainment. If "Mission..." has a problem, it's the daunting task of crossing the left-brain/right-brain barrier (most people are one or the other and not both) in a difficult genre.
Review of Mission to Mars
