Wrong direction and lack of insight burns this movie

Rating: 6/10 (18 January 2016)

While not an extremely bad movie the direction this movie takes seems to disappoint. Survival movies always work well but when a survival movie turns into an obvious rescue drama, well the outcome can be somewhat predictable. For the first 40 minutes or so the audience is treated to the angst ridden fear of death but the protagonist pulls himself together and designs a way to eat and live. It would have been far more dramatic had he survived to the point where he possibly would never need to be rescued. Imagine how much better this movie would have been when after several attempts at almost making contact with Earth he resigns himself to the inevitable life on Mars. Fade to a rear image of him staring out into the blankness of space as the credits roll. Now that would be a true Martian! But no unfortunately (or fortunately) the makers of this movie decide that there should at least be an attempt to rescue the poor sod. Did they get him off the Red planet? Well you will just have to watch to find out wont you?