In the mid-21st century, the nations of a dying Earth look starward for a solution and set out to colonize Mars. So they send a bunch of "likable" people up to sort things out, but as luck would have it everything goes wrong. They get hit by a solar flare kind of thing and crash-land on Mars. If that wasn't enough their robot dog turns psycho on them and decides to wipe out the entire crew one by one. Add some algae-eating and O2 producing bugs (phew!) and you've got the general idea. In other words things are looking grim and it's up to our man Val to save the day.

I have to admit that I sat through this film waiting for whatever it was that was living on Mars (I saw the trailer), and when the "creatures" finally have the decency to show up; they're the biggest dissapointement in the history of sci-fi filmmaking. Hate-mail to Antony Hoffman for getting my hopes up, Jerk!

Investigation finished: 2001-05-09

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Story: 4/10 - The Alien plot (with a little "Saturn 3") recycled for the Nth time, except they forgot the most important thing; the monster.

Acting: 3/10 - The most interesting character in the film is a robot dog.

Violence: 3/10 - You know it's a lame movie when the flesheating bugs appear when there's only ten minutes left of the film.

Nudity: 10/10 - Filled with gratitous nudity and steamy sex (geez I'm kidding, can't you take a joke!).

Coolness: 2/10 - As before mentioned the dog was kinda cool, and the bugs where o.k. (when they finally show up), but unfortunately the director seem to find it cooler to fill the movie with a melodramatic love story, duh!

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