What a beautiful movie!

The greatest movie ever!

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Of course CRIMSON FORCE won't shine in terms of spectacular but it is actually a fun movie, I mean if STARGATE ATLANTIS is popular enough to run for multiple seasons with similar CGI effects, how can this film be bad if it has the same crummy looking effects? Sure its not going to win any awards and true the storyline isn't anything to write home about, but its a good movie if you just switch your brain off and take it as it is.Plus the unintended humor is actually intended, I'd say if you're going to see this film, do so with all expectations on the floor and your brain turned off, if you're going in thinking you're going to see mainstream standard fare even if you do know this is a SCI-FI channel original, then you might as well write the word disappointment on your forehead.

This was such a bad movie, bad acting and just doesn't make a whole lot of since.C. Thomas Howell is such a bad actor. He was good in only one movie that I saw him in and that was the hitcher. Everything else is just so bad.1. A corporation is going to send out a billion dollar investment with a guy who is criminally insane at the helm and then mid way threw helped murder a crew member because he is paranoid.2. What is crew members eating at there stations. getting greasy fingers and hands all in the mix of mechanical parts.3. An advanced civilization which seams that doesn't know whats going on? Some foreign entities walk right through there front door and they don't know about it? Director:David Flores - Writer:Rob Mecarini - OK you two is this your first movie. It doesn't have to be good as Star Trek, Star Wars, SG1, Battestar Galactica. Even the movie the day the earth stood still from 1951 was better executed than this movie.You have to make movies believable, with a hint of truth and that it could happen and not some paranoid murderous ship captain.The very first sentence in the movie; Sir something is happening, he didn't say report, or what is happening, he said keep it steady, what????? You would think you are million miles from home, you would want to know every little creak and noise going on because there isn't a good year on every planet to get your ship fixed.

Howell really knows how to churn out some stinkers and this one is right up there with the worst. Why oh why does he persist in this drivel? To be honest - I am not sure I should comment on this film at all as I could not make my way to the end of it. I got an hour in and the pure absurd nature of what was happening on screen forced my to turn it off and delete it from sky plus box. It is so bad I wish I could delete it from my memory.Where do I start? The plot? God knows what it was - 'cos nobody else does. Or at least no-one cares.The sets - cardboard, movie-lot or CGI. Actually - some of the CGI wasn't too bad - in a cartoony, 6-year old kind of way. The 'ship' interior was so unrealistic it is beyond comment.The acting? Howell is at his over-acting best/worst here. He delivers each line as if he needs to pack enough emotional punches to last eternity and comes across as pathetic. The man is not a bad actor - as The Hitcher / The Outsiders have proved - but my God has he dis-improved as his career (if you can call it that) progressed (digressed). Shouldn't he be learning his craft as he goes from film to film instead of destroying what little credibility he had from the 80's? This guy almost became Marty McFly for God's sake - how has he delved to this low level of acting? In a word - terrible. The other cast members do not escape a pasting here either - they range from mediocre (on the plus side) to worse-than-Howell (and that is some achievement I can tell you).Pacing - none. Plodding, non-sensical scenes just keep on popping up one after the other. No sense of drama occurs anywhere. The crew crash-land on Mars - okay with that. They get out and explore and find a pyramid. Now, you'd think this would be a major surprise to all concerned - but no, they continue as if they just saw yet another red rock. The pyramid magically opens up and they go inside and TAKE OFF THEIR SPACESUITS - YES HELMETS AND ALL. Are they surprised? No. They then find electronic equipment, floating green energy balls, people, laser spears - all of which they accept as if they were expecting these things.I have to stop here as the whole thing was just so ridiculous it pains me to go on. I'd rather stick a hot poker up my nether regions than watch the remainder of this movie. If I go to hell when I die - I know what will be showing on the screen that I am forced to watch 24 hours a day - this movie followed by another Howell shocker - The Sweeper.Abysmal - I gave it 1 out of 10 only because there was no option for zero. Avoid at all costs.

This really is Science Fiction by numbers - it feels like it was written by someone who has read books on how to write SF, but never actually seen any.The "World Government vs The Corporations" backstory is laughably juvenile it its monochrome simplicity and - considering this was written in 2005 - the "future history" it tries to establish is woefully naive and dated. It's made clear at the start that this is the first manned mission to Mars. Yet the crew behave throughout as if crash-landing in Cydonia, discovering an ancient civilization, and meeting alien life (and having sex with it), constitutes no more than a rather busy day at the office.All that said, it's engagingly played by all involved, the moral ambiguities are quite interesting, and everything holds together just about well enough to remain watchable. A thoroughly missable movie, but a generally inoffensive one.