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Article: `Red Planet'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 8, 2000
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On the basis of recent interstellar expeditions we can conclude that movies about the red planet are from Mars and that Carrie-Anne Moss is from Venus. We also can conclude that movies about Mars ("Mars Attacks," "Mission to Mars," "Red Planet") are never, ever, ever as good as a Mars bar.
"Red Planet" is the feature debut of Antony Hoffman, the man behind the ads with those football-playing Clydesdales. It stars the striking Moss, that fierce beauty from "The Matrix," as the sternest, sexiest babe in space since Sigourney Weaver's Lt. Ripley.
Except for Moss (as commander Kate Bowman, who leads a mission to colonize Mars in 2050 because the earth's ...