To begin with, the film shows us a dystopian Mars far from the paradise that technological progress has promised us (which is why it takes place exactly in the year 2084, a century after Orwell's famous dystopia). Martian society is so degenerate that the same viewer could confuse the red planet with a slum of a metropolis of the 70's if it were not for the futuristic setting and characterization. This is where Arnold Schwarzenegger's character comes into play. He will have the opportunity to change the society of retrograde despotism that has imprisoned the Martians, and thus free the planet from machismo and violence (something we would later see on the big screen with Sin City).
Regarding the structure of the film, it is a clear example of a monomyth: it goes through all the stages of development of the circle (this makes the film predictive in a way, but only in a few points, since the screenplay structure is well disguised with many mindfucks). However, you don't need to know this scheme to be able to predict this movie: this movie has a Chekhov's gun in the most James Bond style: a suitcase with different gadgets that the hero will sooner or later end up using.
The setting is magnificent and the use of CGI is minimal. This is something I really appreciate, as many movies end up collapsing like sand castles because of derisory and abusive computer-generated images, and even more so the movies of the last century, because such technology was still young (note the first Resident Evil movie or Mortal Kombat).
To conclude, it has very few touches of humor, so it is not a comedy, however, I laughed more with the few humorous parts of this movie than with many comedies.
Summarizing: It is a movie that I liked a lot, maybe because it is a young movie and I have seen it at a good age, maybe because it has a certain inclination towards science fiction.
Review by AitorBlockedParent2021-03-16T06:24:34Z
To begin with, the film shows us a dystopian Mars far from the paradise that technological progress has promised us (which is why it takes place exactly in the year 2084, a century after Orwell's famous dystopia). Martian society is so degenerate that the same viewer could confuse the red planet with a slum of a metropolis of the 70's if it were not for the futuristic setting and characterization. This is where Arnold Schwarzenegger's character comes into play. He will have the opportunity to change the society of retrograde despotism that has imprisoned the Martians, and thus free the planet from machismo and violence (something we would later see on the big screen with Sin City).
Regarding the structure of the film, it is a clear example of a monomyth: it goes through all the stages of development of the circle (this makes the film predictive in a way, but only in a few points, since the screenplay structure is well disguised with many mindfucks). However, you don't need to know this scheme to be able to predict this movie: this movie has a Chekhov's gun in the most James Bond style: a suitcase with different gadgets that the hero will sooner or later end up using.
The setting is magnificent and the use of CGI is minimal. This is something I really appreciate, as many movies end up collapsing like sand castles because of derisory and abusive computer-generated images, and even more so the movies of the last century, because such technology was still young (note the first Resident Evil movie or Mortal Kombat).
To conclude, it has very few touches of humor, so it is not a comedy, however, I laughed more with the few humorous parts of this movie than with many comedies.
Summarizing: It is a movie that I liked a lot, maybe because it is a young movie and I have seen it at a good age, maybe because it has a certain inclination towards science fiction.