Watch The Expanse instead!

Rating: 4/10 (10 February 2016)

Caution: "Spoilers ahead." Like you don't know how this piece of work is gonna start, bore you and then end. Absolutely leaving you with the feeling that you've been swindled by Hollywood, Again! Just how much do the movie companies pay for good reviews? This was supposed to be a hard science fiction movie. Instead, I left the theater dumbfounded.
GOOD SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES ARE LONG GONE FOLKS! Kristen Wiig was miscast. Why is Kate Mara in everything? Same with Jessica Chastain? Michael Pena in space? OK. Chiwetel Ejiofor went from Serenity to this hot burning pile of garbage? The humor, bad. Just dreadful! The casting, bad. The scientific plausibility of Mark Watney surviving God knows how many sols without sufficient oxygen or food, really, really bad.
Forget about the use of duct tape in this movie. How about Mark Watney taking off of the Martian surface and into low orbit in what can only be described as a convertible rocket ship. Awesome! No wonder all the "Premium" cable movie channels have their own shows. Hollywood rarely makes a good film nowadays.