Another Mars movie, Red Planet (starring Val Kilmer and Carrie-Anne Moss), came out the same year and similarly borrowed from 2001, with a HAL-inspired killer robot that was more reminiscent of Hector ...
It's been a good few decades for fans of sci-fi movies that approach space travel from an at least somewhat realistic perspective. There've been IMAX epics ("Interstellar"), action thrillers in space ...
It is 2025, and we are making the necessary steps to colonize Mars. That is the set-up to Red Planet, a sci-fi movie that is now 25 years old and manages to feel lightly optimistic, despite being ...