"Last Days on Mars" ( eng. The Last Days on Mars ) - British sci-fi thriller directed by , based on the story "The Animators" by science fiction writer . The action takes place in the near future on the planet Mars . The premiere was held on May 20, 2013 as part of the Cannes Film Festival in the program “Two weeks for filmmakers” [1] , the broadcasts were released in the fall of 2013.
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| Genre | fiction thriller , horrors |
| Producer | Rory Robinson |
| Producer | Andrea Cornwell, Michael kun |
| Author script | Clive Dawson (script) , Sidney J. Bounds (short story) |
| In the main cast | Lev Schreiber , Romola Garay |
| Operator | Robbie Ryan |
| Composer | Max Richter |
| Film company | |
| Duration | 98 min. |
| Budget | £ 7 million |
| A country |  UK ,  Ireland |
| Tongue | English |
| Year | 2013 |
| IMDb | ID 1709143 |
Content
Criticism
On the Rotten Tomatoes website , the film has a 19% rating based on 58 reviews with an average score of 4.8 out of 10.
Description
The crew of eight astronauts for 6 months working at a research station on Mars in the framework of the second Mars mission "Aurora Mars Mission 2". The Aurora spacecraft is in orbit with the rest of the expedition.
Until the program is completed, the group remains a little over 19 hours when one of the team members finds microscopic traces of a certain form of life in the collected soil samples, deciding to hide the sensational results, informs the commander of the alleged failure of the equipment at one of the landfills and receives permission to leave from the base with a partner. However, during the trip about the opening becomes known to the rest of the team. The question arises how to treat the discovery itself and the concealment of such a fact by their colleague.
Upon arrival at the landfill, misfortune occurs - the scientist Marko Petrovich, who has received confirmation of his discovery, falls into a newly formed failure and dies. From this moment begins a series of terrible events - the discovered form of life strikes earthlings, turning them one by one into evil monsters, eager to destroy the survivors. The infection enters the body through the blood and after a while the infected cease to be human.
Surviving crew members make a desperate attempt to call a rescue team from orbit and escape from attacking monsters on rovers . As a result, all members of the expedition are killed, except for Vincent Campbell, as well as rescuers who arrived on the shuttle . Survivor Vincent Campbell sends a message that he has enough food and air to wait for the rescuers, but he can also be infected.
Cast
- Lev Schreiber - Vincent Campbell
- Romola Garay - Rebecca Lane
- Elias Coteas - Charles Brunel
- Olivia Williams - Kim Aldrich
- Johnny Harris - Robert Irwin
- Goran Kostic - Marko Petrovich
- Tom Cullen - Richard Harrington
- Yusra Barsama - Lauren Dolby
Shooting
Filming took place mainly in the desert of Wadi Rum in Jordan , as well as at the Elstree Studios in Borehamwood , Hertfordshire , England [2] .
See also
- Life on mars
- Aurora (program)
Notes
Links
- Official site
- "Last Days on Mars" (eng.) On the Internet Movie Database
- Last days on Mars (eng.) On the site allmovie
- "Last days on Mars" (English) on the site Rotten Tomatoes
- Cannes Film Review: 'The Last Days on Mars' - a movie review on the Variety website .
- The Last Days on Mars: Cannes Review - film review on The Hollywood Reporter website (eng.)