The Last Days on Mars
The Last Days on Mars
R | 06 December 2013 (USA)
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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.

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GamerTab

That was an excellent one.

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Fairaher

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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Anoushka Slater

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

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Sarita Rafferty

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

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DowntonR1

The above description just about covers it,though it's nicely shot, and the cast includes Liev Schreiber, Romola Garai and Olivia Williams, it's a nothing special tale where an alien and or infection takes the crew down one by one, lotsa running down corridors and opening and closing air locked doors, you know the drill!

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Prismark10

Liev Schreiber is the nominal star of The Last Days of Mars. Some of the crew in a martian base come across some bacteria which turns them into zombies and re-animates them.They return to the base and attack the others eventually turning them into zombies. The survivors need to get off the red planet.This is a low budget film that is rather derivative. John Carpenter did it marginally better with a bigger budget in Ghosts of Mars. George Romero made better zombies films with a lower budget.You just watch this in amazement as to how stupid the crew behave. People come to life and the crew does not know how to get rid of them. People get infected and the crew thinks they will stay dead. It is awful stuff.

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sherylchilders82

The Last Days On Mars Hulu This film shines in what it doesn't say. Everyone says this is too familiar and has nothing new, but I strongly disagree. While it does build on great past sci fi films, it puts an Earthly plot (zombies essentially) on a foreign planet. It's most definitely not just a monster movie (though it also takes cues from some great ones). It is definitively sci fi, snuggly fitting with the classics (2001: A Space Odyssey, Event Horizon, even Interstellar, though technically that came after, plus the various Mars movies), although it is a more subtle type, destined to be under appreciated because of its willingness to leave so many plot points open. Like great sci fi (stress in the fi), it has a lot of unexplained phenomena that it recognizes wholeheartedly (how can they be moving if their brain isn't functioning?), but it is compelling enough for you to suspend your disbelief and enjoy the ride. Also, don't expect a clean ending. Good sci fi will leave you with an open mind - and that is why this is so good, but also less popular. Unfortunately, most general audiences prefer to be coached down to every detail and meaning in art. Come on people. Have a bit of imagination. Frankly, I do sometimes like movies that dumb everything down, or especially movies that make logical sense down to the very last detail, but I also appreciate something different, some variety. And I would say that this film delivered on both levels - we pretty much know what is going to happen in the end, without having to actually see it. It leaves that unsettled feeling that is also somehow comforting.

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fredwerner

Do NOT watch "The Last Days on Mars," unless you're a 14-year-old boy who likes crude zombie flicks. Otherwise, don't waste an hour and a half of your precious life. The saddest aspect of this film is that they actually put a lot of money and resources into assembling a decent cast with some quality sets, and had real potential to make an intriguing and engaging movie about prospects for human space travel. But instead, they flushed all that down the toilet with a plot that steals rehashed themes from Alien and other real movies, and made the whole thing about zombies. You can't even credibly call this a "sci-fi" movie, because the only fiction is that this movie has anything to do with science fiction. It was physically painful to watch as much as I did before I started skipping ahead and finally quitting it. I hope no one else suffers through this horrible mistake of a film, and I hope all of the humans who actually worked on it learned some serious lessons about how NOT to ruin a prime opportunity to make a good Sci Fi film.

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