Terra Formars
“We're the ones who will survive.”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 67, rated by 1 admin.
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A mission to Mars finds that the cockroaches sent ahead have become an exceptionally hostile welcoming committee. Takashi Miike answers by transforming the humans into an expanding collection of insect-powered fighters. The explanatory structure is thin; the succession of new mutations is the attraction.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 6.5/10
- Plot
- 8.5/10
- Effects
- 4.5/10
- Dialogue
- 6.5/10
- Rewatchability
- 7.5/10
“The terraforming programme has returned an extremely aggressive bug report.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 67
Synopsis and movie facts
With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface. They came up with an efficient and cost effective plan of sending cockroaches and mold to the surface so that the mold would absorb the sunlight and the insect corpses would serve as a food source for the mold. It is now the year 2577 and the first manned ship to Mars has landed on the planet and the six crew members are ready for their mission. But what they find are giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strength. The crew members are easily wiped out, but not before sending a transmission back to Earth. Now, humanity will send elite warriors to exterminate the mutated bugs and claim back Mars.
- Released
- 2016
- Directed by
- Takashi Miike
- Running time
- 109 min
- Original title
- テラフォーマーズ
Starring
- Hideaki Ito as Shokichi Komachi
- Emi Takei as Nanao Akita
- Tomohisa Yamashita as Jin Muto
- Takayuki Yamada as Ichiro Hiruma
- Shun Oguri as Ko Honda
- Kane Kosugi as God Lee
- Rinko Kikuchi as Asuka Moriki
- Masaya Katō as Keisuke Dojima
Research behind this pick
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- Film reference · themoviedb.org
Canonical film identity, release date, runtime, director credits, cast, genres, synopsis and poster checked against TMDB movie 330070.
- Review · moriareviews.com
The review describes the repeated insect transformations and finds Miike's excess entertaining despite the thin plot.
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