Beautiful, engaging and funny

Rating: 9/10 (1 January 2016)

A great movie, scenery and clean effects, very good actors, especially the excellent performance Matt Damon, and lean and coherent script. The Martian might seem just another science fiction film, well, it is rather a film genre, however, is not "just another", he gets all the credit for innovating in the approach to the subject, differing quite recent successes in this category, rather than trying to follow the realistic mold and serious Interstellar or even the tension and paranoia of gravity, the film is based on completely different bases and behind an engaging story of sci-fi with an excellent mood and that is embedded incredible way within the script, by the way, this is perhaps the greatest asset of the film, it does not come as a comedy, but the good mood prevails throughout most of history which makes it much more engaging to the audience. About the same, the film shows no innovative plot, may be even classified as simple, but even that makes it all even better job, even with a story that you basically know how it will end, you still yes hooks you - you know going back to rescue him, but how? - And in all other respects it never seems forced or without cohesion. The visual effects are excellent as well, leaving the film as a whole extremely "beautiful." Matt Damon is fine, giving his charisma character, a sardonic air at various times, dramatic when it is necessary, in addition to appearance changes that show a huge commitment. In short, The Martian is more of a science fiction movie at a time of re-popularization of the genre, but innovating in the approach of its proposal, out of default, has an indisputable success, avoids saturation of this kind of movie and shows that science fiction has much more to give, certainly one of the best 2015 productions.