IMDb meta-data is runtime 1h and 39m, of rated 5.3 by 3,000 cineastes.
Genre: Sy Fy.
DNA: Iberian.
Verdict: Lugubrious
Tagline: Iberians in space!
In distant 2020 the first crewed multinational mission lands on Mars. Wallop! Caught in a sandstorm it makes a very bad landing. It takes the first 30 minutes or more to establish that point and something of the personalities, several of whom should never have been selected for the mission either because of temperament or what seems to be a lack of technical ability, as well as personal hygiene.
What follows is Lifeboat (1944) without Alfred Hitchcock’s direction or John Steinbeck’s screenplay. These five must wait two years for the low-bid manufacturer’s guaranteed road service vehicle to bring a new battery, which will arrive long after the life support in the lander has failed. And no, they cannot plant potatoes. See, I thought of that, too.
After that slow (read: boring) start it does gradually develop into a character study without the arrested development ‘shoot ‘em up’ of Hollywood, though also without the depth, complexity, and variety of Lifeboat.
There is a surprise in the last reel that undermines everything that has gone before. See it to believe it. The Mars on one of the Canary Islands has a surprise in store. But it is left unresolved.
Several of the players are Portuguese, though the production was Spanish, altogether a rarity, this is an Iberian science fiction movie. Oh, and the dialogue is dubbed, poorly, by high school students, or so much of it sounds.