One of the best Sci Fi films made( Don't listen to the haters)

Rating: 9/10 (29 December 2015)

First let me start off by saying that this movie isn't going to have a masterpiece plot with development between the characters and yeah there are some minor flaws that i will get into. Don't listen to the bad reviews, the characters are fine the way they are. Its a copy paste of Apollo 13 pretty much expect its on mars, it has Matt Damon, and there is only one man to save. The movie doesn't pretend to be unique or something its not. The trailer, the title don't give you anything else as to what this is. Its a simple rescue mission to go get Matt Damon off of mars, and we get to see how he survives it.
The acting was great, the characters also were great. You could relate to all of them and there struggles of what choice was the right one on getting Mark Watney (Matt Damon) home. Mark Watney is a very likable character that the audience can cheer on and support through the movie.The science is very accurate sure there are a few flaws which i will start with first.
The intro was a little confusing, at first i questioned whether or not the storms on mars were that powerful, or whether or not there were any storms at all on real life mars. I did end up finding out that mars does have storms, but the storms wouldn't be able to push watney all the way out onto the landscape like that, nor would it be able to cause the module so much damage that they have to take off and leave without him. Other than that this films adaption of the mars setting and environment, along with what Mr. Watney had to do to survive is very accurate and beautifully portrayed. For example, when Mark Watney figured that he only had enough food for 400 days at most. He figured he had to create his own artificial environment inside the station to farm food and sustain himself until rescue. " In order to make water you need to combine hydrogen and oxygen and you burn". That was the only way for him to get enough water to farm his crops, he barely enough water to drink and for sanitation to begin with, so that was the only method he could use. As we all know inside the station, its basically pure oxygen so he had to be careful to only use small sparks to create it. When he was successful at doing this he then had his moment of triumph and cheered right in front of artificial water maker adding extra oxygen to from his own breath caused an explosion. The travel time between earth and mars is very realistic as well, during the movie you can just feel time passing by and watney doing his daily chores next to the station or hab and Ares 3 seemingly taking forever to get back to earth. FINALLY it accurately depicts what long term space travel is like, its brutal and long and boring. The gravity isn't accurately depicted, which is forgivable. You cant film all sequences like this underwater or with CGI you need times where film has to be shot, so its forgivable and i will give that a pass. All and all this is a very good movie and you should go watch it when it comes out on DVD on January 16th 2016