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starstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstar Robert Horton - Film.com
starstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
starstar Philip Wuntch - Dallas Morning News
starstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstar Bob Graham - SF Chronicle
starstar Michael O’Sullivan - Washington Post
starstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstar Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
starstar Elvis Mitchell - NY Times
starstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
star Jonathan Foreman - NY Post
star James Berardinelli - ReelViews

The often realistic Mission to Mars blazes no new trails, but it's a handsome, efficient, and, on the technical level, convincing traversal of some old ones

- Jay Carr

Ineptly directed, badly acted, and scripted with an eye towards stupidity and incoherence, the film is worthwhile only to those who are in desperate need of a nap

- James Berardinelli

Mission to Mars

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A crew of astronauts goes on a recovery mission to Mars and unexpectedly encounters those who created the building blocks for life on earth. Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O'Connell, Kim Delaney, Tim Robbins, Woody Blake, Elise Neal, Jill Teed, Jody Thompson, Bill Timoney. Director: Brian De Palma (2000, PG)

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