Entertaining but not realistic

Rating: 6/10 (3 January 2016)

The movie was an entertaining ride and Ridley Scott is a good director. The Martian as a movie is interesting since Mars travels is not that far into the future and it deals with some interesting questions like how to grow crops on distance planets and also the danger if somethings goes wrong. It was not over the top unrealistic but as an educated engineer I felt some parts where questionable. The duct tape "savings" is probably not working on the surface of Mars and some other things like how he could move the 400 kg hatch from the rocket by himself etc. And why did he not write something in the sand or anything if he knew Nasa could see a photo of the station from earth every day? However, the most questionable thing is how Nasa handles the situation. The first contact they have with Mark is broad casted live to the public, really? Nasa's engineers can't come up with any way to rescue him before a flimsy young guy explains it with a stapler, really? They did not tell the other crew because they would be distracted in their mission, really? Nasa's engineers is rushing a start of a rocket launch so fast they miss to do critical safety testings and blows the rocket, really? And so on.. Entertaining at least, not educational.