with a title like mar and you instantly think of movie like total recall and red planet or even the slightly abominable mission to mar . now those movie at least show the planet mar in all it glory . in jon hess mar we get a story that could take place anywhere . we only get two cgi top shot of the mar base alpha city in the beginning and the end of the movie and and we also see some actor stumble around on a pile of red sand . the rest of the dull and clichéd story take place on card board interior set . it all look real small and they do not even have enough extra to populate the set . the story itself be predictable involve a company man ( olivier gruner ) arrive on mar to investigate the death of his brother . but still the plot manage to be structure like any decent police investigation story . you can immediately spot who the bad guy be and the plot be just an excuse for a lot of kick and fight . there also suppose to be a big successful mining company on mar and but all we see be three man drill outside . the bad guy just can not act and olivier gruner be incapable of show emotion but do kick a few good punch ( that why he be great play a cyborg in automatic and a cybernetic human in nemesis ) . but please do not give him any meaningful line to say and cause you would not be able to stop laugh with his straight face . in the end this movie even lose track of it own purpose . be it about the drug . be it about the ore. be it about the health of the marsians . who care . but it will have you laugh when the bad bos be kill at the end . so and to many and mar might be a waste of time and which it probably be . but still and i have see bad . mar belong in that same bad sci fi vein a precious find and but at least that one be fun cause it do not take itself seriously .