A sneak attack! What starts off looking like a halfway decent sci-fi about the first human born on Mars traveling to explore Earth, turns into a fairly cliched teen romance-adventure-drama of the sort you might get from Disney or Spielberg’s cheesier moments (not a good thing, in my book) when he hooks up with the earth girl he’s been video chatting with and they go off to try to find his father, while being pursued by NASA scientists desperate to find him for a heart transplant before his enlarged heart gives out due to Earth’s great gravity. Saved by the charming performance of Asa Butterfield as the protagonist, with numerous fun moments such as his convincingly startled expression the first time he sees a horse, and for some reason got a lot of really terrible reviews it didn’t really deserve, but at the same time I have a hard time going for the teen romance adventure thing.
