Space made in Hollywood

Rating: 3/10 (11 May 2020)

I watched amused at first as Matt Damon is interpreting an astronaut who has a great sense of humour, seems to be capable of many things, including growing plants on Mars. I was finding the visual excellent, a good pace and a great soundtrack. Having had a look at the bad critics, I preferred to ignore them and just enjoy. This was up to one hour and 20 minutes.
Then, not to give any spoiler, comes a subplot about a plot that made my brain scream ´What???´. From then, I started becoming very sceptical about the basis of this story. It is based on a book that I haven´t read and I don´t know if it is based on a real event but I hardly believe it would be.
As I am not a scientist, I had taken for granted that what was on the screen was plausible but this subplot was so improbable, it made me question the past hour and 20 minutes that I had watched.
Matt Damon is having a lot of fun alone, doing some experiments, listening to pop music, growing plants, talking to the camera like the man on the street. Would an astronaut actually act like that?
Would the film have stopped after one hour and 20 minutes, I would have thought ´great entertainment´ but because of the subplot that comes out of the blue, I watched the last hour from a very different perspective.
I appreciated the visual and the music but the characters are not believeable. Matt Damon is funny, even touching at times, but the other characters are nearly inexistant. And the end is definitely made in Hollywood, not on Mars.
Have a look but make sure that you don´t go beyond the 80th minute or you will get very disappointed.