Rather boring, actually. Unless you like watching long scenes in astronaut suits and an open finale.. me, not so much. I was prepared for a few boring scenes at the beginning, until the troubles started happening, then I thought there would be more interesting scenes... there were a couple of scenes that weren't bad, but generally it was rather boring. More in detail:
Vincent ( Liev Schreiber) is our protagonist, and has a close relationship with Lane, for some reason; I think she helped him after some sort of traumatic experience, I'm not sure. He's on Mars, along with four other man and two women. He's been there 6 months already, and only have 20 more hours before returning home, so basically the title should read "the last hours on Mars", not days..
Anyway, one of them, Marko, finds some kind of bacteria and wants to study it more because it could be a huge discovery, and trouble starts. When people die they become infected and start walking around with a lust for killing. Marko is the first one, he dies and then kills one of the women, Balby, Dalby or something like that, can’t be bothered to look that up right now. Both turn into murderous monsters and start walking towards the base. There’s only Kim and Harrison(or something) there, and he rushes to open the door! as if there was nothing strange in seeing the man he thought was dead walking all the way (it was far away); I don’t remember if the monster still had his helmet on or not, but still, he opened without looking because the monsters certainly didn’t look normal anymore nor they could talk. He’s killed right away but Kim fights a lot and can warn the others when they arrive. She understands pretty quickly how dangerous the situation is, and when the leader is badly injured and dies, she rushes to tie his body up so he won’t be able to rise again, while the others were judging her and telling her things like ‘he’s dead, what are you doing?’, as if being dead he would care about being tied up.
When they all understand that dead bodies rise again as monsters they grasp the situation, and the man Irwin who was some kind of doctor or psychologist or whatever basically kills Kim by locking her up inside a room with the monsters to save himself, while she was still alive and well, and then he tells the others that “she didn’t make it”. I was glad when he died too. Aren’t astronauts supposed to be trained not to panic?
Anyway, one by one they all die, the last ones are Lane and Vincent. Lane is hurt and wants to save Vincent so she walks away while he sleeps but he runs to her so she takes off her helmet and dies and he cradles her body until the monster starts moving, then he crashes it with a rock.
He had called for help and when help arrive, they get out of the vessel without being able to see outside so they all get killed, and the monsters take over with it, but Vincent gets on board to free it, and the movie ends with him alone, leaving a message that should reach someone in 15 minutes, and he says that he’ll be waiting to be rescued unless he feels that he’s about to transform too and in that case he’ll somehow ( I don’t remember how) destroy the ship-vessel-whatever and end it.
The movie ends right there, so we don’t know if he’ll be found alive or not, which is silly because if he dies and can’t fully explain what happened there’s a chance that other people might be send there to find out what happened and fall victim as well.
Anyway, when we meet Vincent and Lane at the beginning, he tells her the things he won’t miss and names Kim multiple times, letting us know they all think she’s a nuisance, that nobody likes her, but honestly she was the only one with a little sense in her head, and when she died in that stupid way the movie lost its only chance. Her fight with the monsters was the most interesting bit of it all. The rest was rather boring.
vincent - liev schreiber
lane - romola garai
kim - olivia williams
irwin - johnny harris
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