Really good sci-fi movie. Would highly recommend.

Rating: 9/10 (28 February 2017)

Directed by: Ridley Scott
Starring: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain and Chiwetel Ejiofor
Overall: This movie is fun, unique and I am sure you will find some enjoyment in it.
Good:
1. Matt Damon is amazing as Mark Watley, bringing plenty of charisma and character to his role.
2. Mark Watley was a well written and well developed character.
3. All the supporting cast do good from Michael Pena to Sean Bean to Jeff Daniels. All of the supporting characters, even lesser seen crew members, are interesting and actually have some depth to them.
4. I adore the way the movie is told via the progression of Sols. You seriously believe that time is passing and that Watney has been there for a while.
5. Very nice and sometimes gorgeous cinematography.
6. Decent special effects
7. The concept is Castaway... on Mars! Whoever thought of that is a genius and should be knighted.
8. Solid dialogue with some mini-jokes that actually made me laugh
Bad:
1. I didn't like the music at all.
2. The science gibberish even sounds like rubbish. The goal is to make it plausible while in reality being implausible. The movie fails to make it sound even remotely believable.
3. I hate how convenient it is that the one guy who gets stranded up there happens to be Earth's #1 Botanist and could survive for a couple years on POTATOES! Just the whole convenience of it annoyed me a lot.
9/10