Matt Damon’s performance makes the 2 hours 21 minutes running time of the film fly by. I was expecting something like Castaway when I saw the trailer for The Martian and while there are some elements of the Tom Hanks film, Martian totally blows it out of the water. Salvaging old equipment sent to Mars decades earlier he manages to raise Houston. Next on the agenda for Watney: contact Earth. “It’s bigger than one person,” he declares to which Henderson responds, “No.
Teddy Sanders (Daniels), the boss of NASA, questions the millions of dollars and possible loss of other lives to save just one man. Ejiofor’s Vincent Kapoor heads the Mars division and Bean’s Mitch Henderson, responsible for the Ares III crew, both want to exhaust all possibilities to get Watney back. Watney is alive! Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Sean Bean brilliantly play the NASA bigwigs who get to decide what happens next. I laughed out loud at the video log where he pathetically announces that he’s run out of ketchup.īack on Earth, the NASA satellite operator (Mackenzie Davis) notices stuff moving on Mars. He builds a rig that makes water and uses the vacuum packed human waste for fertilizer and, voila, a potato harvest. If he was the mission’s tech guy he would have been toast. Of course, he just happens to be a botanist. On a planet where nothing grows, he’s got to figure a way to eat. What’s he going to do? Watney tells his video log, “I’m gonna have to science the **** out of this.”įirst on the agenda: food. He’s got enough food for a little while but rescue won’t come for four years.
After tending to his wound (I had to look away), Watney assess the situation. Having been impaled by part of the communications antenna in the storm, Watney wakes up to find that he’s all alone on the Red Planet. The story of his fight to survive and the triumph of the human spirit in the face of impossible odds is not a new story, but director Ridley Scott tells it like no other. Matt Damon becomes The Martian when a severe storm hits the crew of the Ares III on Mars and Mark Watney (Damon) gets left behind, presumed dead.
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