A good space flick, not a great one

Rating: 5/10 (3 October 2015)

The human fascination about the 'Red planet' is not young. The fourth planet of our solar system always stood out as the best chance of human race migrating to any other planet nearby other than earth. Now as the scientists claim they found the water fountains in there, the fascination in coming years will only grow.
Coming back to the movie, 'The Martian', to be honest I am little disappointed, though all the other reviews I heard or read went gaga over it. I mean after all it's a Ridley Scott movie with Matt Damon in it. But in the end it felt like just a feel good space flick where everything falls back into pieces, eventually as all optimistic audiences will speculate. Personally I felt it's like Apollo 13 meets Gravity with a happy ending. I have nothing against happy endings but there must be a limit of optimism. Another movie to glorify NASA and makes people think that they are still pretty much into business and soon as Matt Damon said, Humans will grow crops in Mars and eventually colonized it.
About the actors in this movie, Matt Damon, in present days, arguably the most complete actor of Hollywood and he did not let you down as far as the acting is concerned. Always a fan of Sean Bean form the days of 'Golden Eye', in short and pivotal role he as well proved his worth. Jeff Daniels as the director of NASA and Jessica Chastain (Interstellar fame) as the captain of the spaceship were outstanding. Never liked Kate Mara and Michael Pena, so as usual they are disappointing. Chiwetel Ejiofor played Vincent Kapoor, a Indian origin NASA scientist for unknown reason as any other Indian actor could play that role, especially when there are lots of Indians working in NASA, an Indian face would have been good.
Last but not the least; I heard lots of people are comparing Interstellar with this one. Let me tell you guys, these 2 are completely different movies. May be a few of the star cast is repeated in this movie but this one is just about space travel not about time & space travel. My rating is 2-1/2 out of 5. See if you must, but for me it's a good movie but not a great one.