The Last Days on Mars
“The search for life is about to end.”
On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses and he falls into a deep crevice. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes, they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not without danger.
Details
Release Date: 8/11/2013
Runtime: 98 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Ruairi Robinson
Budget: $10.6M
Revenue: $0.0M
Production
Companies: BFI, Qwerty Films, Fantastic Films, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Focus Features, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Prescience Film Fund, Universal Pictures
Countries: Belgium, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Where to watch · US
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John Chard
Soporific Shocker in Shaky-Cam. What is it with Mars based movies? It's a planet that has been in all our lives via press, geography, history and etc, yet when it comes to film it proves to be a subject too much too far for some film makers. The makers here add a zombie slant to things, which in truth is just another excuse for a monsters on the loose plot. Only it's in shaky-cam this time, the hope obviously was to add realism to the preposterous story. On the page it clearly had potential to be a fun-packed thriller, the execution sadly not only wastes a grand cast list, but plays out as dull and introduces nothing remotely smart or interesting to the sci-fi and horror genres. 4/10
