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The Last Days on Mars (2013)

Director:
Ruairķ Robinson
COUNTRY
Ireland / UK / USA
GENRE
Science Fiction / Horror
NORWEGIAN TITLE
-
RUNNING TIME
98 minutes
Producer:
Michael Kuhn
Andrea Cornwell
Screenwriter (based on "The Animators" by S. J. Bounds):
Clive Dawson


Cast includes:

CHARACTER ACTOR/ACTRESS RATING
Vincent Campbell Liev Schreiber ½
Charles Brunel Elias Koteas ½
Rebecca Lane Romola Garai
Marko Petrovic Goran Kostić
Robert Irwin Johnny Harris
Richard Harrington Tom Cullen
Lauren Dalby Yusra Warsama
Kim Aldrich Olivia Williams ½

 

Review

Run-of-the-mill story about a research team on Mars and their encounter with ... well, you know what. The good thing here is that the performers actually are giving this a real go, especially Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas and Olivia Williams, but the sad thing is that the filmmakers are a little bit too desperate to get rid of them. And as you know, it's never a good idea to rid yourself of the only good thing your film has going for it. By the half-way line, The Last Days on Mars has gone from semi-interesting to completely numbing, and unless this is the very first film about these thematics you've ever seen, there's really not much point going on.

Copyright © 24.8.2014 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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