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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.