The Martian is a 2015 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. Drew Goddard adapted the screenplay from the 2011 novel The Martian by Andy Weir. The film depicts an astronaut’s lone struggle to survive on Mars after being left behind, and the efforts of NASA to rescue him and bring him home to Earth.
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Yes, I’ve been watching a lot of these types of movies lately. Stranded on a remote island, stranded on Mars, stranded on Mars again.
This one is different. This is not so much a stranded story as it is a survival and rescue story. I also quite enjoy Matt Damon as actor and appreciate this movie as he doesn’t a whole lot of acting recently. He does very well.
This gets political, in a way. Jeff Daniels is the head of NASA and is our antagonist. He is very good at it, I dislike his character. I like that Jeff and Sean Bean butt heads at the office about policy and procedure while back on Mars Matt is doing his damnedest to stay alive until he can be rescued.
I also really enjoy how the rescue comes about, it’s good, you’ll have to watch it.
My Ranking: ★ ★ ★ ★
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