This film wins the award for most time spent in Mars Dune Buggies

This was an interesting little Sci-Fi piece if not borrowing very heavily from Apollo 18 and the whole notion that there are all sorts of microbiological nasties lurking out there in space for unsuspecting astronauts.

As the film opens manned (and womaned) missions to Mars appear to be well underway with a survey team digging up bits of rock and sand. Then one of them finds something resembling life and…well I think you can guess the rest.

Whilst I enjoyed the film my only complaint would probably be that a lot of the scenes were too drawn out, especially hours of travelling in Mars dune buggies. Whilst I appreciate this would probably be close to reality and all, something else could perhaps have happened as well. No “Ash is a goddam Robot” moments here (yes it borrowed from Alien also) just here is mars, here is monster, run, run away.