Mission Mars

Dull depiction of the first mission to Mars by an American flight team is a plodding tale with no action until the end. McGavin and Adams, the two astronauts on the dangerous mission, encounter two dead Russian cosmonauts as they approach the planet. A third cosmonaut is found on the planet in an apparent state of suspended animation. They manage to revive him but are attacked by a strange force activated by the sun's rays. The filmmakers can be commended for portraying an alien as something other than a humanoid, but for little else. The cast is as lifeless as the story. This was the first feature to be made at Miami's Studio City Complex, which explains its poor ...