Since this is a PG-13 movie, he has a better view than we. Bowman, who stayed on board the mother ship, must try to guide them to the landing site where oxygen and provisions necessary for their survival await them. Faced with the desolate terrain, failing equipment and environmental conditions unsuitable for human life, the death of the landing crew appears to be certain. And that's before they discover that AMEE has gone over to the dark side and is trying to kill them off as well. Despite the interesting special effects, the quality of the production design of the spacecraft and the simplicity of the story itself, there is something essential missing.
Red Planet is as emotionally cold as the vacuum of space.
We simply never become interested in the characters or their stories, and so when disaster begins to pick them off one by one, we shrug and wait for the next victim to bite the Martian dust. Antony Hoffman, an award-winning director of commercials, makes a dubious feature film debut. While the film is visually striking, the narrative is surprisingly dull. Granted, these descriptions are pitifully insufficient, but it's all the information we are ever really given. As far as the premise of mankind needing a new world to inhabit, we who trust in the scriptures have the comfort of God's promises and the assurance He gives that this world will endure until the Lord's return.