The film deals with a NASA Arctic trip that was considered a two-year journey. During that trip, people try to experience the human adventure and survival, and it is perhaps a journey of fear, survival and hopes. It seems that everyone who tried to reach was aiming to trace the upper Arctic and Mars, a planet that might completely hide the mystery of our origins.
Take "Ice Road Truckers," mix it with "The Martian" and blend in a book of verse, and you've got something that resembles "Passage to Mars," a beguiling documentary that's concerned as much with images as it is with information.
Jeauffre's blending of terrestrial and extraterrestrial imagery is hypnotizing and spectacular, but this story of survival feels too bloodless to appeal to the average viewer.
Unable to develop any of the team members as personalities or to evoke the supposed otherworldliness of its arctic setting, it becomes a testament to the fact that a sense of wonder doesn't mean jack without the talent or art needed to express it.
