Not Brilliant.

Rating: 5/10 (24 October 2016)

Surprised it was a Ridley Scott film, very mediocre, emotionless, I couldn't wait for it to end. Matt Damon plays the part of Mark Whitney Astronaut stranded on Planet Mars after a raging storm causes a projectile to hit him and causing the rest of his crew to assume he his dead and therefore leave him behind.. He put in a good enough performance but I can't quite believe his nonchalant attitude in the film about being left on Mars it was like he'd missed a Train but hey ho no problem. Fortuanely his Character is a Botanist, so he plants potatoes and uses his own faeces as fertiliser. Is it that simple - I think not. As expected the crop is a great success and you hear him say that he was once told that if you grew on a planet you had created a Colony therefore he'd Colonised Mars. There's no end to his talents and what he can do with a plastic sheet and duct tape after the air lock was blown needs imagination! It's the usual trials and tribulations before he is rescued. On the plus side the music is good and the landscape authentic looking.