In the near future, Earth is dying. A new colony on Mars could be humanity's only hope. A team of American astronauts, each a specialist in a different field, is making the first manned expedition to the red planet and must struggle to overcome the differences in their personalities, backgrounds and ideologies for the overall good of the mission. When their equipment suffers life-threatening damage and the crew must depend on one another for survival on the hostile surface of Mars, their doubts, fears and questions about God, man's destiny and the nature of the universe become defining elements in their fates. In this alien environment they must come face to face with their most human selves. Astronauts, and their robotic dog AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion), search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry. This comment should actually go into the goofs section, but since I can't post there I'll do it here. I just saw the final 15 minutes of this piece of **** and the sheer stupidity of the scene annoyed me so much I had to write this.<br/><br/>So picture this, final scene… Val Kilmer's character is almost dead and floating around outside the spaceship. Gets picked up by brave heroin who saves him from dying and floating around in space forever. Remember this is a weightless, no-gravity situation. She drags him into the spaceship and as she starts taking of his space suit as to reanimate him, she gets told she has to put him upright???? Why? What's the point? Putting somebody upright in a weightless situation? Can you imagine I switched channels. All right, there's a LOT of better sci-fi out there. But this one ended up being a lot better than I expected. It's the little touches like the astronauts reminding each other that they've got online interviews with schoolkids that I enjoyed.<br/><br/>You want to see Iceman, Trinity, and Dynomutt together at last, you rent this movie, you get your money's worth. A leaden, skimpily plotted space-age Outward Bound adventure with vague allegorical aspirations that remain entirely unrealized.
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