Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars vs The Apocalypse

Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 5.5/10 for The Apocalypse). Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars is the shorter watch at 1h 2m compared with 1h 33m. The Apocalypse is the older of the two (2004 against 2009). Both are drama, tv movie movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars posterDoctor Who: The Waters of Mars2009 VS The Apocalypse posterThe Apocalypse2004
Doctor Who: The Waters of MarsThe Apocalypse
Audience score★ 7.9/10★ 5.5/10
Year20092004
Length1h 2m1h 33m
GenresAdventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, TV MovieDrama, TV Movie
CountryUnited Kingdom–
DirectorGraeme HarperRaffaele Mertes
Main castLindsay Duncan, David Tennant, Gemma Chan, Michael Goldsmith, Sharon Duncan-BrewsterRichard Harris, Bruce Payne, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Luigi Diberti, Constantine Gregory

Synopsis

Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars

In a Mars base, the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. The Doctor is thrust into the middle of this catastrophe, knowing a larger one is waiting around the corner.

The Apocalypse

The film is set in 90 AD and concerns Jesus Christ's last surviving disciple, John of Patmos, and his writings and visions from the Apocalypse of John. Emperor Domitian has declared himself to be God and ruler, over heaven and earth. The Christians do not recognize his divinity and face persecution, from the God Emperor. John has been imprisoned on, the island of Patmos, a Roman mining, penal colony, with many others. He writes out messages of…

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