The Last Days on Mars (2013)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

best movie i've ever seen.

Absolutely brilliant

For completists only this movie is another to add to the list of my disappointments on Brit SF and horror, and that is becoming a loooong list. The title is about as dumb as the plot - what were they thinking of? Some cleverdick punning on the BOC track "Last Days of May"? Schoolboy humour best left on the suggestion list. But thankfully they at no time do the media cliche thing and call it "Mars, the Red Planet" FCS how annoying that is. Maybe I should not have watched that Europa movie so recently (thanks Film 4) because I had a dose of deja vu here. And I can also see why some allude to Prometheus or Alien Covenant.... how come such morons get on such missions? These cardboard characters are an insult to NASA scientists and engineers who would be on such missions. Maybe Nostromo had some drones "managing" a spaceship but that is so unlikely and hackneyed this movie should have come up with something more original and relevant. In fact I am bored with writing this review having wasted 90 minutes watching the wretched thing.... cue the Yardbirds song.... Next up from Film 4 is "The Raid" now that IS a great film....!

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.

A good science fiction is the best thing in the world, but if it's done poorly it is a pain in the butt. And this one has so many unexplainable aspects, it's hard to watch. They seem to know exactly what happen, even if this is the first time they've met with an alien life form. Why would anyone send the team, risking more lives to search for a dead body? They tell the base station that they find and alien life form and what the HQ does? Yeah, nothing. How can someone with severe claustrophobia be an astronaut? Probably they never tested that during training, really realistic. It seems they have 1 first aid kit for the whole mission so if they didn't carry it to the rover, there's no way they can deal with a simple cut. Oh, and the girl can't walk unless they but a bandage to her really small cut. The girl's space suite was cut with a knife, but if she doesn't pull the knife out, the oxygen can not go out of the suite, yeah right. And it goes on and on and on and on. It could be a small budget film, still they should be able to find someone with a sense of logic. I give it a 5 because I live space mission movies, but it was bad

I'm not going to lie to you about the script, it's sh*t and painfully unimaginative and the rating reflects that. But as a cinematic experience this film nicely stands out from a lot of the recent dregs that I've seen. With this film it's not just the sets or the editing or the set pieces, but the way everything is flawlessly put together, makes for quite an enjoyable watching despite the worst idea ever for a film set on Mars. Also, the film doesn't drag it's feet, all the scenes last as long as they should, without any epic pretense. Back to the zombies.. it must be the accessibility of the zombie make-up that accounts for this inexplicable trope penetration into any genre fathomable, but they really need to cut down, it's been over a decade of f*cking zombie stuff already.