He sits down to make a video log, where he outlines the situation: he's alive, but he can't contact Earth or Hermes it'll be four years before the next manned mission is launched and with the food supply in the habitat meant for him and the other five crew members, he has almost a year's worth of food, or a little longer if he rations. In a painful procedure, Watney pulls the antenna out, uses forceps to fish out a piece that broke off in the wound, then staples the wound shut. He's been impaled by part of an antenna, which still protrudes from his abdomen the combination of the antenna and his own blood sealed the suit just enough to keep most of his air from leaking out. ![]() His oxygen is depleting rapidly, so he makes his way back to the habitat station. Watney wakes up on Mars on what is Sol 21 (mission day 21) after the storm has passed. Back on Earth, NASA Director Teddy Sanders ( Jeff Daniels) holds a press conference to announce that while the Hermes crew succeeded in leaving Mars, Mark Watney was lost, and he is declared dead. The pilot, Martinez, is barely able to keep the rocket from toppling but the launch from the planet is successful. They head back into the MAV without Watney and lift off. Lewis tries to guide the others to find Watney, but visibility is very poor and the storm is way too strong for them. A satellite dish breaks off and strikes Watney, knocking him out of sight of the rest of the crew. Heavy winds and sand gusts surround them. Watney argues for waiting it out and brings up the rear as the crew heads toward the MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle), the ship that will take them back to the orbiting Hermes, in their suits. The storm's intensity and high winds lead Commander Lewis to order a mission abort. The crew learns that a storm is approaching. ![]() At its core is Matt Damon’s adaptable, funny, clever and optimistic Mark Watney, a delightful and gently heroic character whose resilience has to be seen to be believed.Īnd see it you must….The Martian is one of the films of the year so far.At the landing site of the shuttle Ares III, Acidalia Planitia, Mars, at a time in the near future, the crew of the Hermes including Commander Melissa Lewis ( Jessica Chastain), botanist Mark Watney ( Matt Damon), IT guru Beth Johanssen ( Kate Mara), pilot Rick Martinez ( Michael Peña), flight surgeon Chris Beck ( Sebastian Stan), and navigator and chemist Alex Vogel ( Aksel Hennie) are gathering samples before re-entering their living facility, the HAB. And when his crewmates – led by Jessica Chastain’s steely captain – learn their colleague is still alive, they also want to get involved in an increasingly complex and dangerous rescue plan.īeautifully directed by Ridley Scott (who has an affinity with science-fiction material, as he has shown with films such as Alien, Blade Runner and Prometheus) the film is both grippingly entertaining and also fiercely intelligent, all driven by a series of wonderful performances. The film brilliantly balances the desperate leaps of innovation and risk from Earthbound scientists with Watney’s struggles to keep alive in a tough and always hazardous environment. When NASA finally become aware that he is still alive they struggle to find a way to communicate with him, let alone come up with a plan to save him, with the next mission to Mars four years away. A trained botanist, he decides to put his scientific skills to work, starts to grow potatoes in a makeshift greenhouse, and scavenge for anything to help him survive.
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