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While he and Damon are both in fine form here, it’s ultimately Weir’s genius that their work preserves. I prefer aliens with my sci-fi thank you, and although The Martian obviously fits in the genre, it takes its cues mostly from the school of drama (and sometimes,...

Matt Damon’s action-packed film career is highlighted by clashes with various opponents-trained assassins, Nazis, Boston cops, witches, the All Blacks, deadly viruses-but he has never gone up against an entire planet.

I was so happy to leave Mars. There’s technology, as he eventually begins to communicate with Earth. Watch his full review in the video above.

But rather than being abandoned on an ice floe or desert island, the film’s protagonist, Mark Watney (Matt Damon), is marooned on the desolate planet Mars, roughly 225 million kilometres from home. If nothing else, The Martian will leave you with an inspirational outlook in...

Damon is perfectly cast to play a smart-alecky Everyman, which is how he’s presented in the Andy Weir best-seller upon which the movie is based.

Matt Damon gives a remarkable performance, the story is excellent, the comedy is effective, and the movie is a solid adaptation from the best-selling novel. And even though films like Primer are so attractive to me due to their unwillingness to dumb down the science behind their...

It’s a handy promotional tool for Ridley Scott’s The Martian.

Matt Damon nailed his hard monologues in The Martian because he had dialogue etched in memory from having read the script “hundreds of times”.

Based on the best-selling 2011 novel by Andy Weir, The Martian is an incredible and poignant story about humanity pushed to its absolute limits and is directed by Academy Award-nominated Ridley Scott, whose recent credentials include Robin Hood (2010), Prometheus (2012), and...

No, the orbiter didn’t detect water flowing through mythical “canals” once thought to be crisscrossing the red planet’s surface.

This is a big deal because the presence of liquid water is arguably the most necessary element for the evolution of life as we know it. The water on Mars is believed to be briny and far saltier than any on Earth.

“The Martian” is also about an ambitious Mars Mission but more importantly it’s about the human spirit”. In what might have been a deliberate barb, Weir gave his Mars missions names like Ares I, Ares II and so on, like the Apollos of old. “It’s...

Matt Damon regrets not keeping hold of his spacesuit from “The Martian”.

Often described as “Robinson Crusoe” in space, the novel follows astronaut Mark Watney, who is left behind on the Red Planet after an accident separates him from the rest of his crew. The biggest place that’s inaccurate – don’t tell anybody –...

The storm that hit his location in the red planet separates him from his crew that presumes him to be dead. However, Damon’s comedic charm acts as a double-edged sword.