Saving Matt Damon

Rating: 7/10 (30 October 2015)

This is the third movie in which Matt Damon has acted in where he is stranded in another place and needs to be saved. Maybe it is not a coincidence. I guess he fits the role well. With his Impressive talent, I think there will be more movies in the future where Matt Damon stars in these kind of roles. Matt Damon's character in this movie is a brilliant Engineer and a Biologist. A little too arrogant for his own good, He portrays how any educated person can survive just by applying their knowledge.
'The Martian' is a brilliant adaptation from the Novel. The Movie has incredible Scientific accuracy right from the Laws of thermodynamics to simple botanical processes. Well, that is what you expect from a Ridley Scott movie. However, 'The Martian' is unlike Ridley Scott. It is quite different from 'Alien' and 'Prometheus', although there are massive references to his former movies. The movie is all about the basic human instinct of survival with a touch of Science coupled with genius minds at work. The film is surprisingly humorous and brought out some good laughs.
What I liked about this movie was the heavy applications of space flight dynamics and mathematics relevant to it. Additionally, the botanist's fantasy to grow plants in extreme conditions another planet is well depicted here.Likewise, as mentioned in the trivia, I liked the Idea of the planet Mars being an antagonist metaphorically. It signifies humans against the massive powers of the natural world and how humans can tackle it together.
Compared to recent Science Fiction movies like 'Gravity' and 'Interstellar', there were no brilliant cinematic scenes showing the landscape of Mars or the awe-inducing visuals of space. Nonetheless, it can be forgiven because the movie focuses on how humans use their machines to survive.
Overall, I would say that it is a brilliant movie with some amount of acceptable humour. It idealizes gender equality by having a woman commander of the 'hermes'. It also includes an International cooperation with China.