The Martian: Hard Sci-Fi may become a bankable subgenre now.

Rating: 9/10 (13 October 2016)

The Martian is one of the best space films to have been released in recent years. It may not be Interstellar, but it is still in a good class of its own. I love a good dose of believable sci-fi and Ridley Scott once again delivers the goods right here as he did with Blade Runner and Alien before this.
Matt Damon play Mark Watney, an astronaut who gets accidentally stranded on Mars after failing to get off the planet with his crew after a severe sandstorm hurtles him away from the spacecraft. After this troubling accident, Watney is left stranded on the planet, and is desperate to find a way to let the Earth know that he's still alive. Will he succeed though? Ridley Scott is a great interpreter of the human condition with his films, and The Martian continues to ask questions about human life the way Blade Runner did, though in a completely different context and more on sovereignty and survival.
The Martian is a must-see.