The Last Days on Mars

2013 "The search for life is about to end."
5.5| 1h38m| R| en
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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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ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.
MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Michael Ledo NOW! Complete with spot spoilers.This film is about the Aurora 2 International Mars station. It is a 6 month one way journey. Their mission is for 6 months. They are in the final 20 hours of the mission before they return to Earth. The characters are introduced with Kim (Olivia Williams) being a person everyone would rather not work with. She is upset because their mission failed to find any life. Meanwhile the Russian scientist (Goran Kostic) is out repairing a gamma sensor...when....The set and background was pretty decent. I didn't know if the film was going to be: a) boring like "Gravity" b) a smart horror like "Ghosts of Mars" c) something stupid like a big rubber headed monster or something really dumb like zombies.Yup. It was "C." I couldn't believe they wasted a nice looking set. It seems a Martian bacterial infection causes people to not only go crazy and want to harm other people, but it also allows the organism to operate in the near non-existing Martian atmosphere. I hate it when a military doctor says, "Sorry, penicillin isn't going to work this time" but nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, which at this point would have made the film better.People who enjoyed "Apollo 18" might like this one. I saw it as wasted potential. Works as a rental.Parental Guidance: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.
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!
Lugodoc Good script, excellent dialogue and acting, first rate prop design, photography and special effects... granted the basic idea is fifty years old but it has never been done so well. The cast is full of convincing actors who would normally never appear in a space zombie movie and all of them treat the whole thing like a serious character drama with total commitment.As a sci-fi fan I appreciate it when a script simply refuses to ignore the rules of physics. Apart from the mystery bacteria/fungus/whatever that turns people into vacuum-breathing space zombies this film is painstakingly realistic, and the astronauts may be scared and under pressure but they never turn stupid. I found it more realistic than The Martian and more enjoyable for about a tenth the budget. It's fast, violent and scary and it had me gripped from start to finish.How they did this for seven million dollars I do not know but if that really is all it cost why can't we have a few like this every year? A perfect B movie, and I mean that as the most sincere compliment.
wiktorpolak Not to be critical...The acting is very well done , visuals amazing however the only thing that bothers me is lack of originality..If you saw mission to mars and any zombie movie then you've watched The last days on Mars already..Nothing new , nothing thrilling , nothing interesting, however it can be entertaining for zombie movies sympathetics.Soundtrack is nice as well , however does not boost up the movie score in my book.I would not recommend watching this movie if you want to pick one out of 5 movies from the same genre. I would recommend it if you have a lot of time on your hands and just want a quick fix of sci-fi.