u/Upbeat-Serve-6096

Okay I have a few mixed feelings about this movie.

It's a parody of glorified violence in media, but it also glorifies violence in itself.

It's about the theatrics of TV entertainment, but its news footage's camera angle is the same as the movie's itself - something that is supposed to reveal perceived truer circumstances is still movie-like. Weird.

I'm not that really catching up with Schwarzenegger's chronology so the delivery of his trailer-worthy lines is often kinda underwhelming for some reason. Is it a lot of his lines being ADR'ed? (The screenshot of his death threat to Killiam is painfully obviously so) Is it some of his one-liners being more forced due to having to announce to the audience? Either way, "Commando" and "Total Recall" had a lot better timing with his one-liners.

Maybe it's like the feeling I had with yesterday's "Capricorn One" - libertarian movie writers, directors and most definitely the audience really had no idea how a totalitarian government conspiracy REALLY worked, so a lot of the high stakes posed by the dystopia loses its steam once the main conflict is in place.

It's about a team of astronauts' race for survival when it turns out their Mars landing mission is a fake and their "vessel" has disintegrated on re-entry.

For some reason I was expecting the story to delve a bit deeper to the sociopolital fallout of this drama a bit more but I guess a heroic happy ending should suffice. Maybe it got sidetracked by the wilderness survival bit. I love the high stakes and the Jerry Goldsmith soundtrack but maybe it could have been a bit more cynical.