Could have been amazing but

Rating: 4/10 (19 January 2016)

It is tough to take a drama seriously when the characters do not take their plight seriously. Sure everyone likes a cocky James Bond, but a botanist stranded on Mars with a cavalier attitude who shows little to no emotion? Sorry, not working. This was partly the writer directors fault and not the actors, I am not sure they gave him the opportunity to add a human element to this story. The biggest conflict was from a minor character on earth and that was not played out well. "Yeah the boss says no but I have feelings here and I am going to do what is right gosh darn it". Of course it is from someone you have idea who they are because there was no character development. Now comes the science flaws. First of all, your suit gets punctured, death is imminent and fairly quick, Damon's suite gets breached three times, once on purpose in the alleged dramatic rescue, I cry BS. Second, if you have a need to accelerate a space craft by using the gravity of earth or Mars, you cannot send a space craft off the surface and hook-up, if you could you would not need the slingshot maneuver. This film deserves a remake but not by Ridley Scott. This is an old story updated but dejavu all over again.