A botched up mission with no redemption

Rating: 2/10 (20 October 2015)

The botches commence right at the start - like launching a space vehicle in the middle of a pretty fearsome storm... hello! 1. Launches are aborted if a storm is on the distant horizon. 2. Science informs us that Mars cannot have the deadly storm depicted.
Gravity - of more appropriately - the lack of it. Mars does have a different gravity than Earth. Doesn't show in the film.
Towards the climax a guy at mission control informs that it takes 46mins to communicate between Mars Rescue Mission and Earth. But as the climax unfolds - comms is instant. 5G/6G anyone!?!
Matt Damon is, as always, awesome - and that is the only good news. The rest of the characters are merely caricatures or worse - stereotypes. It is hard to empathize with anything as the storytelling is jerky. Every ethnicity is represented making it more like a global Socialist propaganda film.
Taking liberties with history is understandable, when making historical films. Why take liberties with Science?
don't waste your time with this - unless you are absolutely in love with Matt Damon. Go watch a rerun of "Apollo 13" or "Killing Jesus" or maybe "Austin Powers".
Anyways, the producers are laughing all the way to the bank and maybe Time, the greatest human innovation, may heal us of our relieved cash.