Kinda been done before.

Rating: Null/10 (28 November 2015)

There have been a lot of movies and TV shows about the red planet. Most of them I've enjoyed. I also like Damon. He's a good all round talent. Had me believing the story in a matter of minutes. Likewise with Ridley Scott. Always find myself engrossed in his imagined world almost immediately. You may be asking yourself if this is building up to a 'but' here?' No not really. But (haha!) whilst I really enjoyed this movie, I did think to myself that this had been done before in a round about way. I'm referring to the 1964 movie called 'Robinson Crusoe on Mars' starring TV Batman Adam West. Of course without the monkey and man/alien companion 'Friday'. News has been floating around about Scott developing screenplays for a couple of classic sci-fi books. Notably Larry Niven's 'Ringworld' and Joe Haldeman's 'The Forever War', both award winning reads and firm fan favourites. Judging by his previous efforts including 'The Martian' I'd say Scott is more than qualified to turn these fabulous classic stories into first rate movies. Especially since Scott relies a lot less on over the top special effects (think Transformers 4 Age of Extinction) and more on script and good casting/acting.