Finished watching The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott and staring Jessica Chastain, Matt Damon, Mackenzie Davis, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jeff Daniels. The film opens up with the commander of the Ares III mission, Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain) and her team preparing to leave mars as a dangerous storm hits the crews base. All of the team leave the planet apart from Mark Watney (Matt Damon) who gets left behind when he gets knocked back by a communication dish. After the team have left, Mark wakes up to being stranded on Mars prompting him to grow food by using the potatoes saved for the crews Thanksgiving dinner as well a trying to regain communication with NASA back on Earth. Meanwhile on Earth at NASA, after noticing movement at the Ares III base employee Mindy Park (Mackenzie Davis) notifies the director of the Mars mission Vincent Kapoor (Chiwetel Ejiofor). Leading to Vincent informing the current head of NASA Teddy Sanders (Jeff Daniels) of the discovery that Mark Watney is still alive. Overall this was an amazing film as it puts a different take on a typical science fiction story as the story itself feels a lot different to the dark tone the film could easily take. The science behind is incredibly interesting and helps to ground the film in a more realistic world. There is also are some great comedic moments which helps to make the characters more relatable and brings a more lighter tone to the film. While the soundtrack and score by composer Henry Gregson-Williams accompany's the film extremely well along with the placement of the music in the film. 9/10.
Friday 9 October 2015
The Martian Film Review
Finished watching The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott and staring Jessica Chastain, Matt Damon, Mackenzie Davis, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jeff Daniels. The film opens up with the commander of the Ares III mission, Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain) and her team preparing to leave mars as a dangerous storm hits the crews base. All of the team leave the planet apart from Mark Watney (Matt Damon) who gets left behind when he gets knocked back by a communication dish. After the team have left, Mark wakes up to being stranded on Mars prompting him to grow food by using the potatoes saved for the crews Thanksgiving dinner as well a trying to regain communication with NASA back on Earth. Meanwhile on Earth at NASA, after noticing movement at the Ares III base employee Mindy Park (Mackenzie Davis) notifies the director of the Mars mission Vincent Kapoor (Chiwetel Ejiofor). Leading to Vincent informing the current head of NASA Teddy Sanders (Jeff Daniels) of the discovery that Mark Watney is still alive. Overall this was an amazing film as it puts a different take on a typical science fiction story as the story itself feels a lot different to the dark tone the film could easily take. The science behind is incredibly interesting and helps to ground the film in a more realistic world. There is also are some great comedic moments which helps to make the characters more relatable and brings a more lighter tone to the film. While the soundtrack and score by composer Henry Gregson-Williams accompany's the film extremely well along with the placement of the music in the film. 9/10.
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very professional, looks like you have been making reviews for many years
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