Lacking for a Ridley Scott space film but still enjoyable

Rating: 7/10 (26 October 2015)

It was enjoyable and Matt Damon's character was a good surprise but the film had predictable characters and storyline, almost Micheal Bayish dare I say, and for a Ridley Scott space film attention to detail was lacking.
The Martian really doesn't hold up as an epic film. Attention to detail was lacking, for instance with how the astronauts moved about inside the space craft. On two occasions I noticed they adjusted their speed without actually touching anything and most of the time it was quite obvious they were attached to some pulley around their waist (and this was inside the craft where they weren't wearing any propulsion suits). This lack of attention to detail should immediately bring this film down, as it should in any film, and was a surprising flaw from a director so experienced in space films. But the story line was a bit...immature as well.
**SPOILERS in the next paragraph** For instance, relying a young, brainy, eccentric scientist to come up with a plan to save the day is pretty typical. Or the commander instructing her chemical expert to make a bomb from equipment on board to blow out part of the craft to slow it down...that's something from a Micheal Bay film.
All things said I did the enjoy the movie. It didn't blow me away but it was enjoyable, charming, Matt Damon's character's humor (actually the whole movie had comedic moments) was all an unexpected pleasantry and it was interesting to see what plan the characters would come up with next. If you're happy with something a bit less fast-paced 'Moon' with Sam Rockwell is a better example of a space isolation.
Oh, I almost forgot. The most UNBELIEVABLE part of this film is Sean Bean didn't end up dying.