A Man vs. Nature flick set on Mars.

Rating: 9/10 (3 October 2015)

You can't help but to compare The Martian with recent Sci-fi films of it's caliber, such as Gravity and Interstellar and I feel The Martian comes in-between the two, while at the same time, trying to be a combination of the two.
Matt Damon plays an astronaut who gets left for dead on a mission to the forth planet from the sun, where he must find a way to survive until he can be rescued.
In the course of four years he had to create a farm were nothing can grow. Is the science accurate? Doesn't matter, as a lover of science fiction it was so exciting watching the movie start from what we know to be true about Mars and develop to what is, at least for now, fiction. It was very lowbrow to make it as real as possible.
And it does not hurt that Matt Damon is such a charming actor. Listening to him explain the mumbo jumbo was entertaining like it supposed to be and he was very humorous as well.
The other side of the film is NASA's rescue attempt of the hero. I thought it was very realistic, as the world all together watched The Martian become the most famous man off the planet. While the politics discuss in getting him back was possibly more accurate than the science, which there was a lot of.
Though the actual visual effects where not that impressive, director Ridley Scott has always been more about the Art Direction, which was vastly impressive, and very similar to the last movie that tried to portray a real look at exploring Mars, Mission to Mars back in 2000. The scenery on Mars and the ship used to get there, was so attractive it distracts from all the flaws in the science and visual effects.
And the movie was suspenseful throughout, I could not wait to see what would happen next.
Though the 3D in the film was not that impressive either, I still felt it was a good two hours and twenty minutes to sit thorough.
They Sci-Fied the Sh#!t out of this one!