Ridley Scott and Matt Damon have collaborated together for what could possibly be their best movie in a long time.

Rating: 8/10 (3 October 2015)

Ridley Scott and Matt Damon have collaborated together for what could possibly be their best movie in a long time. The Martian has moments that will sweep you off your feet and put you right beside Matt Damon's character who is stranded on Mars. What I love most about this movie is the way his character has been conceived. He knows he is screwed but he chooses to remain positive and ends up being extremely humorous. At 3 different times during the course of the movie he refers to himself as a Mars-colonialist, a space- pirate and Iron Man respectively and this justifies the fact that the man is trying his level best to instill within him a certain amount of confidence which in turn could enable him to remain alive and wait for NASA to rescue him. When NASA realizes that Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) is alive, chaos ensues and NASA's attempts to contact Watney had me in splits. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jeff Daniels have acted pretty well.
Jessica Chastain has and will always remain a good actress. At least I feel so. She plays an astronaut who feels guilty for having left Mark Watney on Mars during a fierce storm which had forced her and her colleagues to abandon the mission they were trying to accomplish. What's ironic is the fact that Ms. Chastain and Mr. Damon starred in Interstellar too. In that movie Damon had betrayed Chastain's father. In this movie Chastain is determined to rescue Damon from Mars. Ridley Scott has directed a movie which is not tremendously preachy, isn't overtly emotional and has doses of unexpected humour here and there. And it abounds in space technology that the protagonist dabbles with in order to survive. For all the above reasons this movie is going to be wildly successful. And when the movie finishes you will have your feet back on the ground with a THUD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!