Mars Express

Mars Express

In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet's capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the face of the universe.

  • Released: 2023-05-17
  • Runtime: 88 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Mystery
  • Stars: Geneviève Doang, Thomas Roditi, Léa Drucker, Mathieu Amalric, Daniel Njo Lobé, Marie Bouvet, Sébastien Chassagne, Marthe Keller, Usul, Nicolas Justamon, Jérémie Bédrune, Thierry Jahn, Serge Faliu, Eilias Changuel, Barbara Delsol, Nathalie Karsenti, Delphine Braillon, Emmanuel Bonami, Martial Le Minoux, Marie Chevalot
  • Director: Jérémie Périn
 Comments
  • matiasdevaglia - 23 May 2024
    Everything was going great and then it crashed in it's last minutes
    Good animation, excellent worldbuilding, interesting characters, exciting action sequences and an intriguing plot. What else could we hope for? A good ending, instead of this rushed convoluted mess, that makes the entirety of the characters actions in the movie completely inconsequential. I'm not kidding. Everything our protagonists do, every mystery they uncover, is ultimately pointless. I understand what the filmmakers where going for and perhaps it could've worked in a longer format, but less than 90 minutes wasn't enough time to properly stick the landing. I don't regret watching Mars Express, because 90% of it was awesome. But that ending is such a letdown I'll never watch it again and I can't recommend it to others.
  • calahao - 10 May 2024
    French Cyberpunk at its finest
    At first glance, Mars Express may seem like Blade Runner, having a similar premise, and indeed it homages previous cyberpunk stories, like one scene bringing to mind the Million Machine March from the Animatrix. However, it manages to be a fresh intro into this genre.

    Great help in this department is the animation, which is almost infrographical in nature. There are surreal mental scenes, but some robots designs are appear in down to earth scenes as well, like the cat robot at the beginning.

    Overall, a creative, imaginative science fiction world full of bright aesthetics and clever themes and motifs.