TV: Movie: SciFi has been meagre on my cable supplier (low budget) but a Mars flick with Kilmer cawt me

I stumbled on an astronaut movie about a team that heads to Mars and enters into a nitemare where most of the team dies, with guilt heavy on one of the characters. The Val Kilmer character tho, is a good guy. His role affords the movie a bittersweet redemptive ending of sorts.Is there water on Mars? In this tale, it turns out there is. Is there plant-life on Mars? In this story, there is--algae. Is there animal life on Mars? Here it turns out there are swarms of a voracious insect-species which eats not only algae but, as it turns out, human blood and flesh to boot. Besides the Mars-based ontology just outlined, we meet from Earth not just humans but super-intelligent robots, one AI cybercritter is integral to the team's space ship who comes with the team from Earth to orbit Mars at the command of the captain. Also from Earth is a a free-travelling servant-warrior machine (a cyborg with no flesh or body parts other than metals, electricity, and software), an AI machine who/which turns on its human bosses. So, the movie can serve as a pop-education piece on the ontological kingdoms--plant, animal, human, posthuman ArtificialIntelligence creatures--to teach a philosophical point, in a reformational Christian framework if a teacher chooses to do so.

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I'll have to find the title and the list of dramatis personae. (Found it: Red Planet, released 2000.) But the main point I want to make as a viewer and reviewer is simply that this SciFi adventure flick held my attention and was entertaining, with an edge about the theme of good and evil in the human heart. The tragic death of one of the team, while guilt-producing for another team member, was an accident. At that latter team member's demise, we experience a kind of karma because the guilt-ridden person also was simply not pure of heart, proved by his later act of betrayal of his colleagues and then his own death at the "hands" of the AI metalborg.

And yet we are allowed at the end to identify with the sole survivor from the ground team, and to be delited when he makes it back to the ship in its orbit above all the ground activity on Mars itself, where he is rescued by the space ship's captain, a woman. A Valentine's movie?