People are voting emotionally.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

It started very promisingly and was progressing in a nice state of mystery, suspense and tension...which was all punctured in an instant with the indiscriminate use of an electric drill - at that point I laughed out loud and they lost me. As for the alien infection, has anybody else lost an entire crop due to tomato blight? It's not a pretty sight and ends with the destruction of all living organisms in your garden - still a better watch than this stinker though. NEXT!

Once again we have a film detailing a mission to Mars that goes awfully wrong and once again the film's antagonist of choice is the zombie. Zombies on Mars? Did nobody watch John Carpenter's GHOSTS OF MARS and think that, you know, maybe that wasn't such a good idea? I've seen a few movies detailing catastrophic trips to Mars now (RED PLANET is my favourite of a rather average bunch, it has be said) but THE LAST DAYS ON MARS isn't one of the better ones.The problems with the film are twofold. First off, the script is entirely derivative and the writer seems to think that we won't notice that it rips off ALIEN quite extensively, albeit with a little PROMETHEUS-inspired modernising. Secondly, the direction is terrible. The dialogue scenes are okay but as soon as the action hits, the director opts for awful shaky-cam work that detracts from the experience, and pointlessly jumbled editing that makes the whole thing rather confusing. Giving control of this film to a first time director wasn't a very clever idea.Those were the bad things but there is some good stuff here, namely the film's cast. The reliable old-timer Elias Koteas has a predictable role as the group leader but he's typically efficient in the part. Romola Garai is surprisingly good as she always is in her performances. I didn't used to care for Liev Schreiber very much but he has been growing on me recently. Olivia Williams, Tom Cullen, and Yusra Warsama aren't really very good at all but they don't get too much screen time and Johnny Harris builds on the creepy persona he had in the THIS IS ENGLAND TV series.The film does have a good pacing and there are few slow spots so it's just a pity that what does take place on screen is so derivative. I liked the look of the zombies as it's pretty scary but the action is predictable and you can guess the ending from the outset. Plus I was never convinced that the film really was taking place on Mars as it looks much more like the Jordanian desert. Couldn't they have given it a red filter or something?

A rather more recent entry among the suite of films dealing with Mars exploration, "Last Days on Mars" is a film in which the latter half bears some resemblance to (albeit outperforms) "Red Planet"; while the first section deals more with practical mission problems in a manner somewhat reminiscent of "The Martian". To be honest, it is the first (pre-zombie) part that is most compelling, and all the more so for a British viewer (of this British-Irish film), given the joyously (overly-) optimistic scenario of an international mission that features several British astronauts (played by the likes of Olivia Williams, Romola Garai, Johnny Harris and Tom Cullen); even if the starring role goes to American Liev Schreiber - who plays well as usual; while the mission is headed by a Canadian (also in real life, played by a capable Elias Koteas). Like all of the films referred to (plus, for example, "Mission to Mars"), the locations and style of presentation are good enough to remind us what a beautiful place Mars must be (and indeed is), but also what an immensely hostile, distant and lonely one. The claustrophobia here is at times quite tangible, the rover vehicles look convincing enough, and overall there is no particular sign that this piece of work is the worse for having had only 7 million pounds in its kitty. For better or worse, the makers go mainly with an "infectious life discovered on Mars" story that they stick to in dedicated fashion and carry out to the best of their ability. It works well enough, and rises to its greatest heights when (most of) our astronauts behave heroically like their real-life counterparts, and with a mix of resourcefulness, professionalism, selflessness and sang froid, notwithstanding the (also realistic and also quite tangible) mission fatigue and even "space sickness" (of the more conventional kind).

As a sci-fi fan, I found this movie not bad at all. It just missed some more serious deeper elaboration, maybe due to a not appropriate budget. The thematic, although fantasy, of course, does make sense more than many sci-fi I saw.SPOILER -Who said that a planet's inhabitants, should be always more developed and skilled than humans? Why not also and just simple microorganisms not yet developed that, like vegetable, trying to survive the lack of water available they need. Now, the human body is around 50-65% water, you can imagine... To clarify, there are not zombies at all, the microorganisms maintain the functional organs of the astronauts host body trying to survive. In fact, the first infected host symptom is thirst. There is also an explicit scene where the host was sucking water fallen on the floor. Hosts just look like zombie for obvious reasons. Infected bodies become a sort of microorganisms diving bell, puppets in search of water.END SPOILER -Surely this movie would have benefited from more in-depth, some other scenes, a deeper script and a better editing. However, it is a more than decent sci-fi/horror, with suspense, scary moments and not so obvious at all. A sci-fi movie looking like made a bit on a rush, but it is still interesting and nicely done.It is a 7/10 movie to me but, I give it 8/10 because I found it too underrated.