Red Planet isn't as bad as the year's first abysmal Martian movie, Mission to Mars, but it's pretty close.
– Jonathan Foreman,
New York Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Any movie that requires this much narration-background, plot line and introductions to each and every character-is as deprived of oxygen as outer space.
– John Anderson,
Newsday,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
There's precious little sense of adventure, suspense or excitement and no sense of fun.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
What human speech manages to break through the tedious, impenetrable jargon is so compressed and weighted with exposition that it feels more like notes for an outline than actual conversation.