Review – Mission to Mars

Close Encounters was a good movie. 2001 was a good movie. So if we mash them together, that should make a really great movie, right? Wrong. Of course the stupid, new-agey plot didn’t help matters at all. The so-called Face on Mars is real? It was put there by aliens that were also responsible for starting life on Earth? That’s dumb even by Disney standards. As if all that plus a hearty dose of spouse death wasn’t bad enough, the final icing on the cake is an excessive reliance on the battle of the endless string of mishaps versus the techno-babbling macho men. Touchstone must have spent a fortune on this clinker, because the cast list at the end dragged on so long that I actually started looking for my own name in it (hey, everyone else in the United States was in there, so why not me?). See if desperate