



Produced by Andrea Cornwell and Michael Kuhn
Screenplay by Clive Dawson
Based on the short story "The Animators" by Sydney J. Bounds
With: Liev Schreiber, Romola Garai, Elias Koteas, Olivia Williams, Johnny Harris, Goran Kostic, Tom Cullen, and Yusra Warsama
Release Date: 19 September 2013
Color/Aspect: Color / 2.35 : 1
Editing: Peter Lambert
Music: Max Richter
Runtime: 98 min
Release Date: 19 September 2013
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color



That fact that The Last Days on Mars is a shameless mash-up of Alien and Night of the Living Dead wouldn’t necessarily sink the picture were it not such an uninspired hybrid. Despite his A-sized budget (for a British picture), director Ruairí Robinson shoots with the clumsy, unimaginative, all-hand-held-close-ups style that almost never serves a film well--certainly not a sci-fi, horror or suspense film. Despite the strong cast, it is often difficult to tell who’s who due to the identical costuming, routine visuals, and hackneyed dialogue. Every time the movie starts to engage us in a potentially suspenseful or creepy way, some character will do something insanely illogical or say a line so dumb it seems to belong in an Ed Wood picture. The Last Days on Mars continues the well-established tradition of bad movies that take place on the Red Planet.
Produced by Andrea Cornwell and Michael Kuhn
Screenplay by Clive Dawson
Based on the short story "The Animators" by Sydney J. Bounds
With: Liev Schreiber, Romola Garai, Elias Koteas, Olivia Williams, Johnny Harris, Goran Kostic, Tom Cullen, and Yusra Warsama
Release Date: 19 September 2013
Color/Aspect: Color / 2.35 : 1
Editing: Peter Lambert
Music: Max Richter
Runtime: 98 min
Release Date: 19 September 2013
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color
★★★★★
One of the 5000 greatest films. Usually only awarded after repeat viewings, so there are more five-star films from decades past than recent years.
★★★★☆
An excellent film. Possibly one of the 5000 and certainly worthy of repeated viewing.
★★★☆☆
A good film well worth seeing. Films listed at the top of this ranking could end up one of the 5000.
★★☆☆☆
A disappointment, an interesting failure, or just a bad movie. Still, maybe worth seeing: I often enjoy the top two-star films in a given list more than the bottom three-star films.
★☆☆☆☆
A bad, rant-worthy film. Should be avoided regardless of hype or talent involved.
☆☆☆☆☆
One of the worst films.






















