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.
simon_ecc
When the zombie appears and takes a drill and drills into the guy's stomach, it's just comical. It's supposed to be sci-fi horror, but it's much more like "Scary Movie", except that it takes itself seriously. If you had a lot to drink and then watched this film, it might be hilariously bad.
Wizard-8
"The Last Days on Mars" at first glance seems to have a lot going for it. It has a decent and capable cast who come across more like regular people than Hollywood movie stars. It has good sets and special effects despite not having a megabudget. And you do get the feeling you are on the red planet, far away from earth. Unfortunately, while watching the movie, I never got involved with the story as much as I wanted to. Thinking about it, the problem seems to be that the director treats the characters and the story in a slow and matter-of-fact manner. It takes a long time for the crisis to rear its head, and once it does happen, the threat is similar to that found in many other science fiction films. Homicidal zombies? Seen it before many times, as I've said. And when the characters start to struggle with that problem, you don't feel any panic or similar feelings coming from them. They seem to take the problem far too well for the most part. And as a result, you don't care for them and their plight. I might be making this movie out to be far worse than it is. It's not a terrible movie, but if you have seen plenty of science fiction movies before, you will have seen this one as well.
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.
AD
