THE MARTIAN

Plot:

A crew of American astronauts while during a mission on Mars try to avoid a vicious storm and prepare to evacuate the planet and then when one of the crew members gets caught in the storm and presumed dead the remaining team takes off heading back to Earth. Once the storm has passed astronaut Mark Watney (Damon) who they thought dead but was only knocked unconscious, manages to get back to the base station and now must strategize a way to survive his ordeal until possibly the next mission comes that way. Meanwhile on Earth after realizing the blunder, Nasa and all the brilliant minds also try to figure a way to bring the stranded man home.


Reel Talk:

Many will try to compare this film to Sandra Bullock's outer space dilemma GRAVITY in which she was pretty much on the screen mostly by herself much of the movie which is hard in keeping the attention of the audience, well fortunately for Matt Damon he did not have to carry the load alone because he had a good cast of co-stars that helped in making this an enjoyable film. With that being said it also  allowed Damon to display a humorous side to his character because he was able to feed off of the other cast members as they worked to get Watney home. Very good movie that I really enjoyed and say that it is worth cashing out to see.

Starring: Matt Damon, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Kristen Wiig, Michael Pena, Sean Bean and Donald Glover
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Rated: PG-13

I give it 5 corn dogs.

By: THE REEL HUSTLER