The Martian

2.00
    The Martian
    2015

    Synopsis

    During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

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    Cast

    • Matt DamonMark Watney
    • Jessica ChastainMelissa Lewis
    • Kristen WiigAnnie Montrose
    • Jeff DanielsTeddy Sanders
    • Michael PeñaRick Martinez
    • Kate MaraBeth Johanssen
    • Sean BeanMitch Henderson
    • Sebastian StanChris Beck
    • Aksel HennieAlex Vogel
    • Chiwetel EjioforVincent Kapoor

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Hitfix

      It takes a genuine master craftsman to take something as complex and difficult as this and make it look easy, but it also takes an artist with a great ear to take something as dense with exposition as this is and make it practically sing.
    • 90

      Variety

      An enthralling and rigorously realistic outer-space survival story.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The director and screenwriter downplay the conventional melodrama inherent in the situation in favor of emphasizing how practical problems should be addressed with rational responses rather than hysteria, knee-jerk patriotism or selfish expedience.
    • 80

      Empire

      Anchored by another great turn from Matt Damon, The Martian mixes smarts, laughs, weird character bits and tension on a huge canvas. The result is Scott’s most purely enjoyable film for ages.
    • 75

      IndieWire

      As commercial entertainment, The Martian delivers on expectations of a "smart" blockbuster even as it adheres to the formula of a relatively simple feel-good drama. Though "Interstellar" aimed for more ambition, The Martian plays it safer: It's a brainy studio effort that sticks to familiar ground in more ways than one.
    • 75

      The Playlist

      The Martian is the most purely enjoyable picture Scott has made in years. The streamlined narrative and the film’s consistent pacing, aided by a cast who don’t make a wrongfooted move, makes for easy popcorn entertainment.
    • 70

      Screen Daily

      Visually spectacular and consistently entertaining, Ridley Scott’s space rescue procedural The Martian suffers only from a failure to hit its emotional beats with the amount of force and feeling usually required to make this kind of life-and-death adventure really take off.
    • 60

      The Guardian

      A wide-eyed tribute to human ingenuity that packs enough snark to pull itself out of the black hole of earnestness, even if its fuel runs out partway through.

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