Thrilling movie

Rating: 7/10 (8 November 2015)

There are many movies where you never really engage with any of the characters. That certainly isn't the case with The Martian where there was clearly a lot of thought put into the script. I never really pay too much attention to scriptwriters, but Drew Goddard can certainly be praised for his work on the Martian. Looks like he's mostly been involved in writing for TV series (Buffy, Lost) in the past, so hopefully he'll be doing more feature films in the future.
Anyway The Martian tells the tale of Mark Watney (Matt Damon) who is presumed dead on Mars when the rest of the crew head back for Earth. It's not giving too much away to say that isn't the case, but how's he going to survive and what's going to happen.
It certainly reminded me very much of Apollo 13 in places and that's a pretty good movie to be compared with. Definitely not to be missed and one of the best movies of 2015.