Movie Review

Intriguing title, no?

On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses, and he falls into a deep crevice and near certain death. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not yet dead. As the group begins to fall apart it seems their only hope is the imminent arrival of the relief ship Aurora.

Interesting premise, and the trailer was intriguing:

I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff, but oh my lord…

We all know Liev Schreiber is a certified hunk and a decent actor. But if I ran into him on the street, I'd have to ask, "Why, Liev? Why?! Were you bored? Needed money? What, for Chrissake prompted you to sign on to this stinker?"

It's not out in theaters yet, but I read the other day it was available through VOD. There wasn't anything else on the teevee machine tonight, so I agreed to the $10 charge and ordered it up.

All I can say is at least it wasn't two ten dollar tickets plus concessions in a theater

Alien meets Ghosts of Mars meets 28 Days Later meets The Thing meets…

You get the idea. To its credit, the visuals were awesome. The Martian landscape shots were beautiful. The story, however…well Zombies in Space would've been more apt a title and from the way the characters reacted to the threat, it was painfully obvious none of them had ever seen a zombie apocalypse movie of any kind. If they had they would've known instinctively that the only way to stop the damn things is with a steel spike through the head. But no!