"The Martian" is a ultimate tale of survival with science, stunning visuals, humor and above all Matt Damon. It's an incredibly smart and entertaining twist on space exploration movie as we know it.
Yet another space exploration movie? After the hits like 2013's Gravity and last year's Interstellar(which is my all time favourite) what's new that this movie will offer? This movie is way different and surprisingly, significantly better and more entertaining than those films. The one thing which lifts this movie higher, makes it more entertaining and different from those movies is 'humor'.
Matt Damon was hilarious as he plays Mark Watney in the movie, who is a part of manned mission to mars and during emergency evacuation he fails to make it to the space shuttle. Everyone thought he died but ofcourse, he wakes up covered in mars dust, alone on the planet. This plot would generally lead to boring and depressing drama. Instead The Martian is a hilarious black comedy. Matt Damon gave Oscar-Worthy performance. Jeff Danials was a delight. All the supporting cast, everyone involved, did a great work as well.
A brilliant quote from the movie.
The quotes in the movie are just hilarious and some are brilliant. The visual effects are stunning. The landscape of mars is absolutely breathtaking. The 3D effects are also quite good. The Martian is adopted by a novel by same name by Andy Weir. And all the credits for science and humar goes to him only. The direction by well-known director Ridley Scott is impressive in every way as he adapted the film brilliantly. He didn't missed or changed anything. He narrated the story beautifully. Many times it felt like it's an exceptionally made biopic, and I belived that Mark Watney was real and was actually staranded on mars.
The Martian scores full and matches the standard of Christopher Nolan's mind-boggling Interstellar but fails in terms of emotions and amazement but its better than Gravity in everyway.
As far as rating is concerned i will give it 9/10. It's a very funny movie with big sci-fi spectacle, thrilling visuals and also a couple of life lessons. What more could you possibly ask for? I loved this film and I will go as far as to say that this is my film of the year so far. Its definetly a must watch for all. Don't miss this movie.
"FEAR" isn't an option.
(A quote from the movie or we can even say it as a life lesson.)
