Don't believe the high average review scores!

Rating: 5/10 (27 December 2015)

This seems to happen a lot - I'll look for a movie, see that it has a good rating, then scan the first several (in this case 5) pages of reviews and see overwhelmingly bad ratings. This leads me to wonder whether people are getting paid for writing good reviews for a movie they may not have even seen. So I saw the 8.2 average for The Martian and thought it'd be worth a watch. Well, it was worth a watch, but only if you suspend disbelief, like, MAJORLY. I'm no rocket scientist but when someone says there was an explosion because he EXHALED too much OXYGEN..and that's just the tip of the iceberg. I'd heard that it was a sci-fi comedy of sorts so was somewhat prepared for Matt Damon's numerous one-liners, but I was really disappointed by the lack of character development not only in his character but in all of them. And Kristin Wiig? Why?? She was SO out of place, as was Jeff Daniels.
Anyway, no spoilers here, just a general 'meh' about the movie's numerous plot holes, its lack of tension due to no empathy created for the characters, and for its completely predictable and anticlimactic (and unrealistic) resolution.