Not that this isn't a really cute movie, because it is, a real coming of age crossed with ET sort of premise but I was immediately taken out of the movie by the fact that people are texting and communicating between Mars and Earth and there isn't a 15 minute delay. This is 2019 and everyone even kids today understand how this works. Also this team brought back a child born on Mars and this isn't the biggest news in the world? It took multiple countries to come together to get the ISS going; I sincerely doubt that by 2034 there will be a superpower with enough infrastructure to send people to Mars and keep any secrets from other countries. I mean by then either we'll be working together as a planet or we will have had WW3. So there are some real science foul ups which, like the old cars you pointed out, probably belong somewhere in 90's cinema but all in a all a solid enough teeny movie in the background while I was washing the dishes.
@toastedzen I think teeny movie describes this very well. More romance than scifi. But like you said, even kids understand the basics of science today. I can understand some crossing corners for the sake off moving the plot along but the foundation needs to be solid.
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The idea of a child beeing born on Mars sounded intriguing. So the movie starts interesting but quickly turns into a generic love story with a predictable plot and a forseeable ending. That needn´t be a bad thing but what didn´t make this work for me is the whole setup. The story supposedly takes place in 2034 and it doesn´t show. People are driving decade old cars for instance. And it seems to be pretty easy to just steal cars everywhere and drive around in them from state to state without beeing spotted althought they seem to have pretty good sattelite surveillance. I know that´s not the point of the story but you could have told it pretty much in any time period one way or the other. If the SciFi part doesn´t add anything to it beside the distance why use it at all? That all aside technically this is a nice movie. But, as I said, for me that is like getting an empty present.