Ogosmith
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Sammy-Jo Cervantes
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.
Derry Herrera
Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.
brettascott
It started very promisingly and was progressing in a nice state of mystery, suspense and tension...which was all punctured in an instant with the indiscriminate use of an electric drill - at that point I laughed out loud and they lost me. As for the alien infection, has anybody else lost an entire crop due to tomato blight? It's not a pretty sight and ends with the destruction of all living organisms in your garden - still a better watch than this stinker though. NEXT!
Leofwine_draca
Once again we have a film detailing a mission to Mars that goes awfully wrong and once again the film's antagonist of choice is the zombie. Zombies on Mars? Did nobody watch John Carpenter's GHOSTS OF MARS and think that, you know, maybe that wasn't such a good idea? I've seen a few movies detailing catastrophic trips to Mars now (RED PLANET is my favourite of a rather average bunch, it has be said) but THE LAST DAYS ON MARS isn't one of the better ones.The problems with the film are twofold. First off, the script is entirely derivative and the writer seems to think that we won't notice that it rips off ALIEN quite extensively, albeit with a little PROMETHEUS-inspired modernising. Secondly, the direction is terrible. The dialogue scenes are okay but as soon as the action hits, the director opts for awful shaky-cam work that detracts from the experience, and pointlessly jumbled editing that makes the whole thing rather confusing. Giving control of this film to a first time director wasn't a very clever idea.Those were the bad things but there is some good stuff here, namely the film's cast. The reliable old-timer Elias Koteas has a predictable role as the group leader but he's typically efficient in the part. Romola Garai is surprisingly good as she always is in her performances. I didn't used to care for Liev Schreiber very much but he has been growing on me recently. Olivia Williams, Tom Cullen, and Yusra Warsama aren't really very good at all but they don't get too much screen time and Johnny Harris builds on the creepy persona he had in the THIS IS ENGLAND TV series.The film does have a good pacing and there are few slow spots so it's just a pity that what does take place on screen is so derivative. I liked the look of the zombies as it's pretty scary but the action is predictable and you can guess the ending from the outset. Plus I was never convinced that the film really was taking place on Mars as it looks much more like the Jordanian desert. Couldn't they have given it a red filter or something?
Anssi Vartiainen
So a group of astronauts are exploring Mars and just before they are about to leave, a disaster strikes. Sound familiar? Yeah, watching the first act of this film is eerily similar to The Martian, especially considering that this film came out a few years before that Ridley Scott masterpiece. Don't worry though, the second and thirds acts take a whole different direction and the initial setup is generic enough that there bound to be a few films similar with one another.So, what about those two acts that follow? I liked them. The idea is once again perhaps a bit generic, but it's done well and you don't usually see these types of tropes in space. Or, at least I haven't seen them. The horror is effective and the claustrophobic essence of space is utilized well to the film's advantage, as is the harshness of Martian landscape.The biggest thing holding this film back for me is the fact that the actors are not really all that top notch. This could have been a much better film with a few A-list names to really sell the horror, the loneliness and the growing despair of having literally no way out. Now we have Liev Schreiber, who's at least memorable, which is more than can be said about the rest of the cast.Still, that simply means that it's an average experience, instead of a great one. If space horror tickles your fancy, I'd give this one a watch.
eryui
As a sci-fi fan, I found this movie not bad at all. It just missed some more serious deeper elaboration, maybe due to a not appropriate budget. The thematic, although fantasy, of course, does make sense more than many sci-fi I saw.SPOILER -Who said that a planet's inhabitants, should be always more developed and skilled than humans? Why not also and just simple microorganisms not yet developed that, like vegetable, trying to survive the lack of water available they need. Now, the human body is around 50-65% water, you can imagine... To clarify, there are not zombies at all, the microorganisms maintain the functional organs of the astronauts host body trying to survive. In fact, the first infected host symptom is thirst. There is also an explicit scene where the host was sucking water fallen on the floor. Hosts just look like zombie for obvious reasons. Infected bodies become a sort of microorganisms diving bell, puppets in search of water.END SPOILER -Surely this movie would have benefited from more in-depth, some other scenes, a deeper script and a better editing. However, it is a more than decent sci-fi/horror, with suspense, scary moments and not so obvious at all. A sci-fi movie looking like made a bit on a rush, but it is still interesting and nicely done.It is a 7/10 movie to me but, I give it 8/10 because I found it too underrated.
