The best movie of 2015

Rating: 9/10 (11 April 2016)

The Martian is a great film. Matt Damon gives one of the best performances of his career. The visuals are great and even the small things like costume and production design were on point. The movie is really funny. The entire film would be really dark the whole time (which it is at times) but with the constant humor throughout, the movie has an optimistic vibe. It does have its problems, though. I thought the movie was slow on occasion and definitely too long as a whole. I also wasn't that impressed by most of the acting. Other than Matt Damon, Michael Peña, and maybe some of the NASA crew, the acting wasn't that good, and the dialogue didn't feel real. This was my second time seeing The Martian. I didn't think it was as good the second time. The main reason was probably that I didn't have the suspense that I did the first time I saw it. A lot of the enjoyment you'll get out of this movie is from not knowing what is going to happen and following Mark Watney and his journey of what to do next.