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Film: The Last Days On Mars (15)

A flabby and confusing effort that leaves you waiting for the protagonists to die is best avoided, warns RITA DI SANTO

The Last Days On Mars (15)

Directed by Ruairi Robinson

2 stars

WITH a nod to  pulp science-fiction, The Last Day On Mars opens with some striking Red Planet sequences.

But suddenly the film  departs from that genre and enters thriller-horror-western territory.

It’s the last day of the first manned Mars mission when  a crew member discovers fossilised evidence of bacterial life.

While on an expedition to collect further samples he falls into a deep crevice and, when his colleagues attempt to recover his body, another of them vanishes.

They begin to suspect — guess what — that the life form they have discovered is dangerous.

Flabby and downright confusing at times, this lengthy film’s ending seems like a desperate attempt to impress and the overly pretty actors cast are not really up to the task.

Thus watching this becomes a pretty interminable case of waiting, as patiently as possible, until all its protagonists die.

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