Released a year after The Matrix, this $80 million sci-fi flick was largely forgotten

Not even The Matrix star Carrie-Anne Moss could save the space blockbuster Red Planet from sinking, a film that suffered huge losses… for obvious reasons.

in 1999, matrix caused one of the biggest media frenzies in film history. Everyone wanted to be like me Carrie-Anne Moss And Keanu Reeves with cool glasses and long leather jackets. Science fiction is booming. after one year Carrie-Anne Moss is back to deliver what may (or may not) be the next blockbuster sci-fi action movie: A Space Adventure red planet which unfortunately no one remembers.

17 million more than Matrix

If matrix It cost $63 million and grossed over $460 million in theaters. red planetIt cost even more, in particular, about 80 million dollars budget and… 33 million dollars were brought in at the box office!

Anthony Hoffman’s only film red planet It did not excite either critics or the public, which left much to be desired, despite the presence of Val Kilmer (Heath) in the casting and Carrie-Anne Moss. And the consensus is pretty clear: 1.9 out of 5 on AlloCiné, 34 out of 100 on Metacritic, 5.7 out of 10 on Moviepilot, just 14% favorable reviews on Rotten Tomatoes… that’s saying a lot .

The plot of the film, however, starts off promisingly. Colonization of Mars is in preparation as Earth will soon become uninhabitable. In 2057, a scientific team must travel to the Red Planet to investigate the problem as part of a large-scale project. However, the science fiction thriller loses itself in unnecessary accidents, rampaging robots, decorated with bad CGI and poor quality dialogue.

As Commander Keith Bowman, a tough spaceship pilot, Carrie-Anne Moss It’s great, but his performance doesn’t make up for the originality of the entire film.

then matrixEveryone wanted more, and yet, for a long time, there was no outstanding success on the science fiction side of cinema. Almost no one remembers movies like Virtual Past and Mission to Mars that started in the wake of the saga. Keanu Reeves. red planet There is no exception.

Not only science fiction fans preferred to watch matrix Second time, but red planet It was also in direct competition with the planet Mars itself, which was already in its heart Mission to Marswas released a few months earlier and which satisfied the audience’s thirst for the subject. but even so Mission to Mars It did not live up to expectations, writes the film magazine Collider. In the year 2000, people were not just interested in the planet, but in artificial realities on Earth.

If you still want to make up your own mind, and especially want to see Carrie-Anne Moss and Val Kilmer on the Red Planet, you can catch the movie on VOD.

Otherwise, the original Matrix trilogy can still be seen streaming on Max.