Yes but ...

Rating: 7/10 (25 October 2015)

Maybe it's the "too high expectations" syndrome but as the end credits rolled, all I could think of what I disliked about the Martian. In no particular order & without spoilers:

strange pacing. You spend huge parts of the movie on relatively short episodes and then suddenly skip 7 months on the space station, 1 month in the rover etc. It gives you a little bit of "huh?!" feeling

the end was ludicrous. just impossible - i will believe Aliens exist before I believe that all these coincidences and risky situations can be successful in a row and in these conditions.

the movie is less visually stunning than Gravity. Or Interstellar for that matter.

Now what was good!

The cast, the cast, the cast. Of course Matt Damon. But also Pena and Kirsten Wiig in particular were good and underrated in the performance

The basic premise of the movie is fascinating. The whole "sciencing the sh*t out of this" was wonderful and very original.

Cool characters and good evolution throughout time for the main protagonist.

Overall a good movie, not my movie of the year though.