I got more than I expected out of this movie

Rating: 7/10 (6 January 2016)

***What I like about this movie : - Damon's performance gets the job done, helps the fact that his part was really good written. His character is witty and likable. - I like the fact that it promotes science. - Preaches optimism and unity of mankind sticking up for our own somewhere out there (sort of speak). - The effort they have put to conjure up the Mars and its surface for us as well as space ships and general tech. - Some really nice shots of outer space and Universe - basis of the story and the dramatic plot ***What I don't like about this movie: - bunch of clichés and plot holes I feel;bad acting from time to time and directors errors leading to ruining this movie's potential! I feel like this could have been one of the greatest sci fi films but they wanted the audience to leave happy-don't think much and told themselves at some point"we've already done enough lets wrap this up" - Clichés: portrayal of Chinese, director getting unpleasant call from the president himself after just one bad press conference, sloppy genius finding the solution the whole NASA couldn't have thinked of, whole world looking in awe live mission broadcast - reporters from times square and stuff.really? ( they decide to risk to broadcast this highly dangerous mission and a chance of loosing all 6 of the crew- yet it took them 2 months to go public just about one lost astronaut) - I feel like Jeff Daniels was a miss-cast. I could believe his acting maybe in 2 or 3 scenes, the rest was just ridiculous. -I find it hard to believe that Martian station is equipped with all of these high tech stuff and there's no a single radio station or something to communicate a message to Earth. Or to the Harm ship! All in all :had fun watching this movie but I don't think its an Oscar worthy performance