So much average

One of my all time favorites.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

The year is 2037 and corporations are still running the planet Earth. Advised to abort the first human mission to the planet Mars, due to some spaceship problems, hard-nosed crew leader C. Thomas Howell (as Kyle Baskin) insists on landing anyway. David Flores and his crew survive shaky cameras and their very rough touchdown, but their spaceship needs repairs. As if that wasn't enough to worry about, they learn a traitor is present, intent on sabotaging the mission. The red planet looks deserted, but looks can be deceiving; there may be Martians lurking about. Not knowing what to do, Mr. Howell seems angry. We also follow handsome "Baywatch" lifeguard David Chokachi (as Nick Ambrose). The women are sexy. There is enough here to make good TV movie, but "Crimson Force" fails to put its scattered pieces together.*** Crimson Force (6/4/05) David Flores ~ David Chokachi, C. Thomas Howell, Julia Rose, Terasa Livingstone

Utter crap. A spaceship crashes and drags along a long skid path. Yet most systems still work on board and the craft stays in one piece - overhanging a precipice. They set out on an expedition to find a universal power source. They quickly find it and one of the crew can read the hieroglyphs written on it's surface. Inside they find the atmosphere is breathable. I deleted as this point - I could not bear to find the Martians speaking English and possessing American-style National Insurance cards. Dear God how thick can the writers/directors/producers be? Still it about the level of sophistication of the average 10 year old.

I mean, this one is Bad. The kind of Bad that belongs in a Film-making Textbook-- under Example # 3aAT the same time, It's a Bad that can be watched if only so you can tear it apart. You'll be uttering phrases such as:Oh Please! You've got to be kidding! RIP OFF!!! Huh. .Right! Die Already!. . .make up more of your own.I won't even BOTHER with Spoilers, because they actually are WORKING with a "Plot". It makes ABSOLUTELY no sense, and it's AWFULLY complex and involved with Preistesses, secretive world governments, Greedy Corporations, warriors, ancient Technology neo-buddhist monks with white eyes, and the old warrior from Stargate, no less!. . .but IT IS A PLOT! That's Star # 1The Ancient Martian Sets and props are actually pretty thorough-- even if they don't make sense either-- but anyways, they did make very good use of what was probably a miserly FX budget. That's Star # 2The Black Character didn't Die in the first ten minutes saving another crewmember. That one's close to my heart. They broke a Sci-Fi Film-making Tradition! That's Star # 3They didn't step out onto the Martian Surface with only Respirators. That's Star # 4 for minimal scientific realism. And all female characters wear dark, tight and utterly utilitarian wife-beater style marine undershirts. As a Guy, I give them a Star # 5 for accurately targeting their audience. And on a Script level, the Final Star # 6 for NOT hearing that tired Line: "We have been watching you for over a 1000 years". (What can I say-- that line always ticked me off in Sci-Fi)Yet all the same-- Watchable, with derision a la Mystery Science Theatre. This Movie IS a Candidate for that venerated venue!Oh. . .and your girlfriend can yap all the way thru this trainwreck without any diminution in collateral enjoyment. 'Cause you can rest assured that the Girlfriend will NOT be paying any attention to what's on the screen. And this is one time that even as a Guy, I cannot naysay her.Gosh-- I hope those actors got PAID?!?!?

The film it self has a good narrative and "bone structure" as it were. The acting however from most parties leaves much to be desired, it is the acting from the Howell in this film that runes the film completely. The Dialogue is said too over zealously making the wording throughout the film seem cheesy. The costumes weren't bad (about the only good thing about the film really). the acting from the gentleman(Tony Amendola) that plays the High Priest is the best in the film, which makes me wonder why he decided to be in the film. parts of the film are completely unnecessary. This is an honest opinion(of mine) on the film. It is for most part a headache.