Ultra Red

OK, full disclosure, I baled before the movie was ten minutes in.

The CGI is cringeworthy. The rover rolls its wheels straight through boulders. The gaseous alien is pixellated. The characters are straight out of a (bad) school drama assignment. The set dressing is as thin as tissue. The dialogue is painful.

The plot is wafer thin. The rover is broken. Only one man can repair it. He's in jail. He's a genius with the mental capacity of a cardboard box. He can learn to be an astronaut in 12 hours, from a guy who you wouldn't trust to punch the code into a carwash.

Seriously, if the rest of the movie is as bad as what I saw, it has stolen the crown from Plan 9 From Outer Space.

I need a lie down.

Stupid time-waster. Everything about it is wrong. Childish Special effects and worse acting. Decor is about to fall apart. Actually it was clearly an ultra bad idea to put this movie on. Just as it was a real bad idea to even produce it. Why bother to throw away any budget on a just terrible piece of thrash like this one is. If you want to throw away even more energy and time on a real dumb and stupid movie be my guest just don't come complaining I didn't warn you in advance please because I hereby do. I fell asleep a couple of times and the rest of the time I declared myself dumb and stupid to not press STOP and drop the thing in the trashcan.

I realise this is a low budget movie but some things are just inexcusable. If the budget is small then at least get the zero cost stuff right. The acting seems so wooden it's like a high school production, but this seems to mainly due to the script which appears to have written by someone who isn't quite up to the job. Maybe a proof reader with at least grade 8 English could have fixed it. It does not greatly add to the budget to give your actors lines that don't make them sound like idiots and making an actor sound like an idiot destroys the character's credibility.

You might have thought that when an actor is presented with a line like "We'd still need to necessitate cooperation with Jack Walker" (4:53) they might say, whoa, stop, this needs some fixing. But no, they just plough on and it just keeps getting worse. I gave up long before the end so maybe the second half gets better.

Absolutely dire.

The dialogue is cringeworthy, and made even worse by such poor delivery. Almost every word uttered sounds forced, contrived.

The plot is okay in general terms, but collapses once you get down to the detail. The main character continually overemphasises his sleaziness and rebel-without-a-cause temperament and ends up in a heavy-weapons fight with two crew-members all over a bottle of whiskey. In real life, such a misfit would never have been allowed anywhere near a NASA facility, let on board a mission to Mars.

Casting: Terrible - at least as far as the main characters are concerned. The minor players - such as the two pilots - should have been put in the major roles as they are clearly more competent and deserve better than this lousy movie. To be fair, though, most of the cast have been compromised by the awful script.

The directing isn't too bad, but as the old saying goes, "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."

One of the worst aspects of this film is the CGI. At times you'd think they'd used the stop-motion techniques employed in the "Jason and the Argonauts" movies of the 1960s.

Give this one a miss.

Good Premises Red neck, bad real bad and way off base. Engineers smarter than you show. Smuggled alcohol wouldn't be out in the open. I've seen 18 year olds that are better at smuggling onto a Naval ship Single person going out, NEVER, NASA uses military protocols. That means unknown threat 2 person team. We are talking tear in suit DEAD.

Tech working on gear, would have another person.

What it shows is a movie that could be good failing do to ignorance, bad research and biases without the curtesy to find out the basic procedures/protocols I can see the attempts at humor but they don't work. Your trying to force the humor and that never works You have to maintain your foundation.

NASA doesn't accept just anyone, your grease monkeys don't represent current Naval Engineering much less aviation. Cleanliness in MANDATORY For your information I have 24 years military service, worked on conventional, gas turbine, and nuclear power shipped. Have meant and known astronauts. Have lived in the Houston area and talked with those that work for NASA, since High School. I have friend that worked on the Hubble Telescope. Specialized in Computers and Communication equipment, Aviation and Warfare qualified, served on 5 US ships.

Sad when the potential for a good movie is ruined bad enough that I am making my first review.