Movie Review
Mission to Mars
by Elizabeth Abele
The trailer for Mission to Mars presents an array of stunning images built around an enigmatic search for the origins of life on Earth. The trailer’s echoes of Kubrick’s science-fiction classic 2001 may lure movie-goers into seats--but it also assures their disappointment. Instead of a stunning, original film, Mission to Mars is a cheesy, ponderous rip-off of a number of science-fiction films that best Mission to Mars not only by having done it first, but better.