Review of The Last Days on Mars (2013) by Andrew S — 13 Sep 2015
Started off showing much more potential than the last two Mars movies I saw... but then quickly degraded into an improbably 'zombies on Mars' movie... where they zombies are controlled by a seemingly sentient bacteria that makes the host go psychotic, not to feed, but perhaps to spread.
.. In any case, they are smart, use tools and even explosives, and can strategize. Plain ridiculous. Some decent acting though, until of course people become zombies. And some really improbably reactions.
And one thing I always notice and never like is when an actor reacts according to what was clearly scripted and written, rather than what is clearly being seen and experienced. Nobody faced with a person that was dead for hours with a breached space suit on Mars with no source of oxygen all that time, and whose face is now blackened, decayed flesh is going to say things like, "Hey, we're gonna to get you some help.
" But obviously that's what the script asked for. Why wouldn't a director intervene?
This review of The Last Days on Mars (2013) was written by Andrew S on 13 September 2015.
The Last Days on Mars has generally received mixed reviews.
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