Moderate

Rating: 5/10 (24 July 2016)

I expected way more from this movie so I was a bit let down.
The real-life link: I am not familiar with all the scientific reasoning that this movie shows so I can not comment if it is possible in real life or not or if they did a good job in bringing the movie as close to reality as possible.
Character analysis: Mark Watney's positivism and humour get him alive. While is hard to believe that someone in those conditions would be as calm and as humorous as Mark Watney was, it is good to see that the movie shows that with those two virtues you can survive even in a foreign planet. There is not much more depth to the characters as this.
The movie missed those exciting turning points, those moments when you don't know if the lead is going to survive or not and if he does how is he going to do that. I felt that from the beginning it was pretty clear that Mark was going to be saved. For a men alone in Mars his stay was pretty comfortable. There was only one instance when things get complicated for Mark ( when he looses his corps) everything else goes exactly as planned. There was only the scene almost after 2 hours that gets slightly exciting (when Melissa Lewis catches Mark) everything else is slow and non action not to say boring.