Review of The Martian (2015) by Eludiumq36 — 09 May 2016

I've rated this film a 7 because while very good, it's also quite derivative, IOW you've seen many of these plot elements/devices before, only the setting is different. Also, it loses points because at 2hrs 20min it's really long and still doesn't cover everything you want to see, so the problem is that it should've been a six-episode tv mini-series to reveal the full end-to-end experience.

Plausibility is good enough but there really should've been more unexpected problems, but that goes back to the need for a mini-series; a lot of stuff got left on the cutting room floor and is otherwise left to your imagination.