Get your ass to Mars

Rating: 8/10 (21 October 2015)

Now here's a curiosity - one of the last massive blockbusters made before CGI properly came along and changed everything.
Again, it's Arnie. You've got the cheese, you've some excellent action, the ultra-violence we expect from Paul Verhoeven, a cracking scenery-chewing baddie from Michael Ironside
This film could only have been made in 1990, really. The effects were good enough for the idea to be plausible, but not so slick that they're no longer fun and pulpy. Imagine, for example, if the Mars suffocation scenes were done realistically. They wouldn't have been half as fun, and we wouldn't be blessed with Arnie's bizarre "GAAARRRRGGGRRRHAARRRNGHHHGGGGGAAA" noises.
Proper pulp sci-fi of the kind we'll probably never see again.
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