The Last Days on Mars

2013
15
1h 38m

IMDb RATING

5.5/10

40K

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Elias Koteas, Liev Schreiber, Romola Garai, and Olivia Williams in The Last Days on Mars (2013)

A group of astronaut explorers succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars.

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A group of astronaut explorers succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars.A group of astronaut explorers succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars.A group of astronaut explorers succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars.

Director
- Ruairi Robinson
Writers
- Clive Dawson
- Sydney J. Bounds
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IMDb RATING

5.5/10

40K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Ruairi Robinson
Writers
- Clive Dawson
- Sydney J. Bounds
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 4 nominations total

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Trivia
Romola Garai, who has appeared in more than a few period pieces, stated that "wearing a space suit is exactly the same as wearing a corset. It's equally uncomfortable".

Goofs
The opening shot shows heat haze across the Martian desert, which is impossible because it is so cold that it barely reaches freezing temperatures, even at midday on the equator. In any case, at about 1% of Earth's atmospheric pressure, the Martian atmosphere is far too thin for the refraction necessary to form a heat haze.

Quotes
[last lines]
Charles Brunel: You'll never get/go home

Connections
Featured in Starfilm (2017)

Soundtracks
Blue Skies Are Around The Corner
Written by Ross Parker & Hugh Charles
Performed by Jack Hylton

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Featured review

6/10

Old School Space Story

This movie had a shot at being quite good, only made it to pretty good. It was a bit of a throwback movie from the 50's with better special effects. Performances were good, but the story went from scientific to space horror a tad too quickly.

Liev Schrieber was adequate but his character had no emotion until the very end of the film. Other performers were sort of character actor types and their length of time on the screen was based much on either who is the prettiest or the most foolish.

There was decent suspense early on and a curiosity as to what happened earlier in their lives, but not in the movie and I guess it had played a part in the plot, but with no explanation, it was kind of oddly placed.

It's a decent watch and only killed about 98 minutes, so you won't find it to be a total waste of time. If you watch it with the thoughts of real early science fiction, you can see how it fit into the genre.

Some people may be surprised by the ending or you'll wonder what happened next.

Take the time, enjoy the ride and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised, but not overwhelmed.

Just my thoughts!

yourlife
Oct 31, 2013
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