The surface of Mars is getting to be terrain so well-trodden it will probably come as a bit of a yawn when we finally get there. This effort, which squarely disappeared under the radar of the viewing public, has the by now customary supernatural slant, but takes it to a ridiculous extreme which some kind of lurgy turning the crew of the astronaut base into zombies. And that's your lot. Thankfully Ridley Scott redresses the balance somewhat with this year's
The Martian, which realises, like
Gravity, that the real-world based hard sci-fi model can be quite awe-inspiring enough without resorting to standard horror or wondrous alien culture tropes.
In the meanwhile, Liev Schreiber needs to take a good hard look at his career; he's criminally wasted on these things.
3/10
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