Lean, muscular and on the money, “The Last Days on Mars” takes a familiar story and tells it so tautly that we are pleased to be on board.
The debut feature for Los Angeles-based Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson and written by Clive Dawson (from a short story by British science-fiction writer Sydney Bounds), “Mars” has its own take on a narrative that has points in common with Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” as well as Sebastian Cordero’s well-received “The Europa Report.”
The film is set during the last 19 hours of an early manned mission to Mars, and the Aurora 2’s nine crew members are barely holding it together. Driven and tactless scientist Kim Aldrich (an expert Olivia Williams) is cranky about having to leave without making a major discovery, while chief systems officer Vincent Campbell (Liev Schreiber), the mission’s go-to guy, and his comrade-in-arms Rebecca Lane (Romola Garai) just want these final hours to go smoothly.
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