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    The Martian

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    A bulked up Matt Damon fit the role of the castaway quite well, although his positive persona was perhaps a little over the top. The landscapes were quite beautiful, giving a feeling of virginal desolation. The complexities of rejuvenating the spacecraft so it could be lived in however required technical expertise on the astronaut's part that totally went over my head leaving me feeling, like the stranded astronaut, totally alone. These, no doubt, inhibited my enjoyment of the film. The roles of the rest of flight crew were all well presented, but I do wonder if a character such as that assigned to Jeff Daniels would actually reach a position as vital as the role he had here. Would the only international assistance for the USA come from a country that volunteered information, particularly when that information was secret? The biggest credibility gap for me was the thought that "what if the stranded astronaut had been the world's greatest Zoologist instead of the world's greatest Botanist? Would he have then been doomed? "

    Although my comments are not overly flattering it was still an entertaining film. Ridley Scott kept it moving in spite of the plot's time-line, the team-work necessary to accomplish such a task was well demonstrated, and we saw a new Matt Damon.

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