The Martian (2015)
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.39:1 144m
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jeff Daniels, Sean Bean
Synopsis:
A six-man exploratory mission on Mars is cut short by a catastrophic storm, and one of its number left for dead. He survives, however, and must patch himself up, contact Earth and figure out how to feed himself while NASA works on getting him home.
Review:
Like Tom Hanks in Cast Away, Damon plays a resourceful and humorous man with whom we enjoy spending long periods of screen time. Unlike that film, we also get to see his rescuers go through recriminations, grit and ingenuity in turn, and the film does not make the mistake of demonizing the high command, anxious to preserve political favour for the space programme. Jordan's Wadi Rum again proves an incomparable stand-in for the Martian landscape, and the special effects, by now taken for granted, bring weightlessness to a new art form. The film joins Gravity and Interstellar in constituting a new high for the genre.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.39:1 144m
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jeff Daniels, Sean Bean
Synopsis:
A six-man exploratory mission on Mars is cut short by a catastrophic storm, and one of its number left for dead. He survives, however, and must patch himself up, contact Earth and figure out how to feed himself while NASA works on getting him home.
Review:
Like Tom Hanks in Cast Away, Damon plays a resourceful and humorous man with whom we enjoy spending long periods of screen time. Unlike that film, we also get to see his rescuers go through recriminations, grit and ingenuity in turn, and the film does not make the mistake of demonizing the high command, anxious to preserve political favour for the space programme. Jordan's Wadi Rum again proves an incomparable stand-in for the Martian landscape, and the special effects, by now taken for granted, bring weightlessness to a new art form. The film joins Gravity and Interstellar in constituting a new high for the genre.
Country: US/GB
Technical: col/2.39:1 144m
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jeff Daniels, Sean Bean
Synopsis:
A six-man exploratory mission on Mars is cut short by a catastrophic storm, and one of its number left for dead. He survives, however, and must patch himself up, contact Earth and figure out how to feed himself while NASA works on getting him home.
Review:
Like Tom Hanks in Cast Away, Damon plays a resourceful and humorous man with whom we enjoy spending long periods of screen time. Unlike that film, we also get to see his rescuers go through recriminations, grit and ingenuity in turn, and the film does not make the mistake of demonizing the high command, anxious to preserve political favour for the space programme. Jordan's Wadi Rum again proves an incomparable stand-in for the Martian landscape, and the special effects, by now taken for granted, bring weightlessness to a new art form. The film joins Gravity and Interstellar in constituting a new high for the genre.