One of the best movies I know

Rating: 9/10 (24 October 2015)

Fantastic film about determination, perseverance, optimism, faith, leadership, collaboration and initiative. It reminded me a bit of the atmosphere in the movie Apollo 13. But with more action en with more interesting personages.
Matt Damon is at his best: about 40% of the movie he is acting alone. In the movie NASA is as cool as one would expect and there are nice references to the real world.
Good, if not great acting of experienced top-actors and excellent directing and editing. It's a long movie, which manages to keep you on full alert the whole 2.5 hours.
The 3D effects are nicely done: the scenes look razor-sharp and realistic: the Martian scenes make one really believe that you're on Mars, the space equipment is also very believable and the camera work is very good.
The only thing I found missing was that there was no story at all about the family of the astronaut.