The Martian Movie Review

The Martian has been getting plenty of critical acclaim and although I believe this is indeed a good movie is not really great or ground breaking...

The best parts of this movie is the story and Matt Damon's performance, I would give a simple summary of the plot here but let's just say is better to go into this movie knowing has little has possible, but it's basically Matt's character get's left alone on the planet Mars and is trying to survive... more happens but does are exactly the problems I have with this movie (I'll get into them in a moment)

Although I have never considered Ridley Scott to be a great director he does a pretty good job here, he does convince me that Matt Demon's character is a men who knows his field and puts that knowledge to the extreme to survive, clearly knowing he is millions of miles from earth is easy to get that anxiety, this arc is without a doubt the best part of the movie...

Unfortunately the movie has one crippling flaw, it's way to long... movies can be long and still be good, however The Martian doesn't count with enough material to make the movie interesting for a 2 hour run: What I mean is that this movie could have easily be 1n'1/2 hour long and all they had to do was cut everything that didn't included Matt's character, exclude his squad, the NASSA drama and earth all together, focusing only on Matt's perspective would have made the movie increasingly better in almost every way; even if the earth portions had good characters that actually acted like reasonable adults so credit where credit is due. The fact that the movie cuts every time to earth shatters my suspension of disbelief, because I can easily be absorbed by Matt's turmoil and struggles but every time they cut to earth I disconnected with the plight of the main character.

The Martian is a very good movie and one that is worth watching, the directing and acting in this movie is great and i really liked the story... but i am certain that if this movie would have been told from Matt Demon's point of view and never showed earth unlit the very end it would have been far better...