Get your ass to Mars

Rating: 7/10 (17 November 2005)

This movie is on TV in the UK on some sort of cycle, and I end up seeing parts of it every two months or so, and every time you see it you pick out new things. I think this was the third time I'd seen the start; they really didn't want him to go to Mars, did they? Fifteen years on the effects don't really look that dated, which is a bit of surprise. In honesty it doesn't use too many bar the mutant freakshow and the comic head-expanding at the end, but it's hard to recall other sci-fi's from the early nineties that haven't aged terribly. The storyline doesn't have a lot of depth and isn't going to inspire a new generation of science fiction writers, and the acting isn't particularly subtle, but it's great. After all, it's Arnie. He beats people up, some things explode, drops in a few hammed up one liners, and he keeps us entertained. What more can you ask for?