a slightly cheesy version of Gravity

Rating: 5/10 (22 October 2015)

I have not read the fiction, but the structure is appealing: a survival story with space science authentic details. To me, Gravity is a poet, the Martian movie, well, it is kind of cheesy and mediocre.
Not a bad movie, it is still fun to watch if you do not need philosophy or inspiration; I can tell everyone worked hard on making the movie. But somehow the loneliness, fear, despair, danger, the life-on-a-thread situation are not delivered enough. It's not Matt Damon's problem, I do not feel those emotions and elements because of the choices of dialogue of actors, what and how to be presented, and what are not shown in the screenplay and editing.
The bigger trouble is, some actors who played NASA staff, rather look like staff in a theme park or a mall. In reality, NASA staff may look like ordinary people, but I just cannot believe some of the actors on that screen are NASA staff.
Glad to know that the last scene of Matt Damon was not from the original writer, because it is such a mediocre closure.