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.

three stars