Its like a Grand , Epic , Feel good space adventure

Rating: 8/10 (5 October 2015)

THE MARTIAN - Its like a Grand , Epic , Feel good space adventure. Not in the arena of Apollo 13 or Gravity or Interstellar. Those movies were too intense to be compared with this. By that i means its too quirky. A lot of humour has been injected so that all the time audience feels the entertainment and doesn't get too much confused by the scientific discussion. Seriously MARS haven't been such a safe place before. Its not like the characters in the movie doesn't get hurdles in their way , but i didn't find them fearing those hurdles. Every time any problem wake up too quickly the person facing it dig outs its solution too with a smile in his face. I am not saying that i don't liked the overall humour. Surely i was enjoying that but also those jokes were reducing the intensity of the film. Ridley Scott is not a kind of director who gives back to back hits. It has been 15 years since he directed GLADIATOR which won the Oscars. Last time he made a great movie was in 2006 when he made American gangster , after that BODIES OF LIES was good , ROBIN HOOD was above average , PROMETHEUS was below great (i almost thought he had made a comeback) , but then he made THE COUNSELOR - the worst movie of this carrier , and then comes the Big Budget flop EXODUS . But guess what he has made another comeback with THE MARTIAN. MARTIAN is like anti - interstellar film , which is actually not a bad thing as many persons have not liked Interstellar because of too much scientific talks(probably above their intelligence level - not director's fault) and lack of humour (cant impose jokes everywhere). So here is the solution. A movie with a lot of humour and comparatively less scientific talks also which are not to be taken seriously as there is great performance by Matt Damon to watch. But yes there are parts where i liked Martian a lot . Growing potatoes and producing water in Mars has been my favorite. Although its an anti interstellar film but the cast has been inspired from it. As Mat Damon and Jessica has been part of both the film. MATT DAMON is one actor in Hollywood with whom every director likes to work , and in every big director's filmography there always exist one film with Matt Damon. Here also he spread his charms , totally enter into the character although never we can see him in much of an scary mode. I think he never get scared. Not even if he is alone in a big planet without enough resources. Chiwetel Ejiofor as head of the mission on earth is a great watch with comic lines too. I know its shocking , but in reality every single person in the movie was cracking jokes. Rest of the cast although have big names but i m don't really getting anything to write about them. Visual effect are good , i mean really good but not great. Actually every single thing in the movie is really good but not great. But i guess this will definitely get the nomination of best Visual Effects. For the category of best movie ? I don't think so. For best actor ? No to that too. As actors performing good in movies which are not nominated themselves did not get much of a recognition. As there always is a tighter competition in best actors category then best movie. Take example of Matthew McConaughey from Interstellar who was even better then Matt Damon in this. And whats with those old disco song , they made the movie a light hearted affair. Don't take me wrong. I really enjoyed the film , its just that the Bench Mark for space movies has been set too high. And with Martian Ridley Scott played too safe. Nevertheless its a really good but not great movie to watch. 8.2/10 by ANuP APu KuMaR