The Last Days on Mars

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Cast & Crew

Liev Schreiber

Vincent

Elias Koteas

Charles Brunel

Romola Garai

Rebecca Lane

Goran Kostic

Marko Petrovic

Johnny Harris

Robert Irwin

Tom Cullen

Richard Harrington

Yusra Warsama

Lauren Dalby

Olivia Williams

Kim Aldrich

Ruairi Robinson

Director

Clive Dawson

Screenwriter

Michael Kuhn

Producer

Andrea Cornwell

Producer

Malcolm Ritchie

Executive Producer

James Swarbrick

Executive Producer

Robbie Ryan

Cinematographer

Peter Lambert

Film Editing

Max Richter

Original Music

Jon Henson

Production Design

Steven Lawrence

Supervising Art Direction

Christopher Wyatt

Art Director

Shaheen Baig

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Critics Consensus: Out of the Furnace is Tough but Uneven

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Audience Reviews for The Last Days on Mars

• Nov 23, 2014

  Poor story, uninteresting characters, weak special effects. Pretty much no redeeming qualities here.
  

  Super Reviewer
• Apr 29, 2014

  Not a particularly good, or interesting, movie. It's one that's only saved by its cinematography, its score, and the cast. That's about it, because the cast is absolutely saddled with every cliche seen in horror films and poor dialogue. It has to be said, but I think this film has some of the worst character development I've seen in a while. Nobody has a discernible personality nor are they particularly likable. Doesn't help that they're also cliched as hell. Stock characters in a stock movie with a good setting. That's all this film is. It doesn't really build to anything, everything you're watching ends up feeling really pointless by the end of the film. What's the point of it all? Why are these people here? Why should I care about them? These are all questions that should be answered, but they're not. They're researching whether there's any sign of life in Mars, that much I can get. But I don't think that's enough, you could have told a thought-provoking story about the isolation of being in Mars, even if you have several characters, I think it could still work, being isolated from the world and in an unknown place, plus the stress of not accomplishing your mission as you're one day away from starting the trek back to earth. You could still have zombies in there, but it'd have been a vastly better movie if you actually added more dimensions to the story and to the characters. As it stands, this is is just a standard zombie movie set on Mars, nothing more nothing less. And I mean, essentially, there's only two real "zombies" in the film, the third and fourth ones don't really count as they're quickly disposed of. You mean to tell me that the survivors can't dispose of the first two people that were infected by the virus? Liev Schreiber himself kills three on his own, but apparently Dalby and Malko, the first two that were infected and the ones that lasted the longest in the film, were far more difficult to kill, even though I'm pretty sure they could've been taken out easily if, you know, more than two of the crew, teamed up to take them down. It seems so ridiculous to me that this would get taken as far as it did and that makes watching the film a little stupid sometimes. Use one of the members as bait for the zombies, then when the zombie is coming after the bait, another crew member sneaks up from behind and stabs him/her in the head. Seems pretty fucking simple to me. That might actually get me to bump the score down from 2 stars to 1.5. People do this in zombie films all the time, no reason they couldn't have done it here. THERE WERE TWO ZOMBIES. How hard could it really be? So, in the end, this thing got out of hand due to stupidity and ineptitude on the crew members' part. This movie definitely sucked. A+ plus idea, F- execution.
  

  Super Reviewer
• Mar 31, 2014

  This Irish, British and US co-production presented as science fiction thriller was directed by Ruairí Robinson with a screenplay by Clive Dawson, based on the short story "The Animators" by Sydney J. Bounds. Filming mainly took place in Jordan. Its small cast stars Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai, Goran Kostic, Johnny Harris, Tom Cullen, Yusra Warsama and Olivia Williams. There were no outstanding performances but all of them where pretty solid! The story of a research crew of eight inhabiting the Tantalus Base outpost on Mars was interesting but not developed in details. We witnessed the events in the last 19 hours of the six month mission which was to finish with a rendezvous with the lander Aurora, which will return them to their main orbiting craft. Nothing special was happening until the scientist Marko Petrovic (Goran Kosti?) found some samples that may point to life on the planet. Crewmate Richard Harrington (Tom Cullen) drives Petrovic, in a solar powered rover, to the spot where he had found the sample... and the tragedy strikes! The movie was engaging enough to create continuity of the story without creating a major drama! There are moments at the start of Ruairi Robinson's feature-length directorial debut that seemed promising... especially a spectacular footage of dust storms and an eerie strings-heavy soundtrack that creates an effective atmosphere of doom. "The Last Days on Mars" was never going to be "Gravity," but it looked like it could aspire to be something closer to the highly enjoyable found footage film "Europa Report." However, the final result was a zombie type action movie which change the whole atmosphere!
  

  Super Reviewer
• Mar 06, 2014

  Yeah, this wasn't very good was it? But by reading the reviews I was expecting the second coming of the antichrist and the movie isn't as bad as people made it sound like. It looks pretty good, albeit not terribly original and has some nice claustrophobic moments but the rest is crap. I could barely understand the motivations of these characters, which were all over the place, the idea is bad, the bacteria idea is not well realized and doesn't make any bloody sense and obviously ripped 3 or 4 scenes from Alien. Not worth your time.
  

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