John Carpenter has given us some great films, Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing, Escape from New York to name a few. Directed with style and flair they were never going to be film classics, but they were very entertaining films. But it has been a long time since we had a half decent film out of him...I had read the reviews but I liked the idea of a Mars take on Assault on Precinct 13 so I was happy to give this a chance.Somewhere in this is a good idea and a good movie but in the delivery it fails and there really is very little on the positive side. The Carpenter magic still seems to be absent and he has delivered a third rate SCI-FI slash film that deserves the bad reviews it has been getting.Sorry John, I really did want to like it.