Leave him there

Rating: 2/10 (5 October 2015)

Are you kidding me? It's what Matt Damon / Mark Watney asks at a certain point in the movie about NASA's plans to bring him home and it was basically the only moment when me and Watney felt empathythough commenting entirely different matters. I have not read the book, if it's a blatant John Wayne sci-fi take on the "throw me anything, I am an American cowboy and will laugh in the face of death, finding a brilliant solution to survive" concept, then brilliant, Ridley Scott totally nailed it. Otherwise the story and dialogs are among the poorest things I have seen lately. It just looks like a NASA-on-steroids advertising striving to convince that "we can solve anything you throw at us and we'll also be funny and classy doing it". There are so many positive reviews about this movie here in IMDb and it frightens me. I get it, the movie is visually quite great (but NOTHING in comparison to something like Interstellar, which stands not just higher, but totally on another level), and for sci-fi, space travel nerds like me it's always amazing to see spaceships, spacesuits and realistic attempts to visualize it. But why should the story be so dull?? It makes you think about Ridley Scott with a super size me cigar in his mouth sitting on a human leather couch in a gazillion million dollar house in Hollywood chatting with a bunch of producers saying "ok, we'll set a bunch of explosions, and the guy will laugh about it and say something funny, then we'll, like, make everything go south, super-south, and he'll find solutions for everything, then we'll throw in the Chinese that help us Americans but we do it better anyway in the end, oh, and let's stick in a young nerdy physicists that nails the perfect solution that not even a Nobel prize would come up with!". There are way too many clichés in this movie and nothing is innovative left aside the wonderful spacesuits.