Partially Interesting

Rating: 7/10 (24 October 2015)

I saw this film yesterday. The poster of the film is highly related to what is all about. An astronaut, Matt Damon, is trying to survive on Mars after his crew has left without taking him. The scenery of Mars came to me very interesting as we have never seen it before. It was very bright even brighter than many places on earth. As well as getting attracted by the charm of a science fiction movie, I also found some technical issues that clung to my mind. I want to list them here because this film is supposed to be more realistic than Star Wars or Alien.
First, astronauts are walking on Mars as they walk on earth. Is there no difference in gravity? Are they exactly the same? I thought they would bounce like on Moon. Second issue is about the pressure and air inside where they live. They have a huge place and plenty of air that fills it. Outside there supposed to be a strong vacuum due to very low space pressure and this pressure difference is not well reflected in the film. When Mark blows up the Hab he uses a tarp(!) to seal the entrance instead of a huge metal door. That was unbelievable. Further, he inflates the hab again with plenty of air and adjusts the pressure to that of earth's so that he can take off his helmet. After all these, there is only a little swelling on the tarp door. Other than these, the thunder on Mars came to me a bit exaggerated. There shouldn't be such strong atmospheric conditions.
As far as actors' performances are considered. Matt Damon is as good as he can be. Jessica Chastain is charming. Jeff Daniels plays a dull and carefree administrator of NASA. He is good if that is what he is supposed to play. Donald Glover plays an arrogant researcher named Rich and he teaches the head of NASA that spacecrafts can do gravitational slingshot as they turn around planets which everyone knows from documentaries.
I reduced some points due to these silly mistakes. I gave 7 out of 10.