This is my favorite of the Oscar nominees so far. I'm definitely buying this one.Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is part of the Ares III mission to gather samples from Mars. An unexpected storm brings a mission abort and the Commander (Jessica Chastain) orders all crew back into the rocket. Watney is struck by a piece of debris and lost. The Commander, believing him dead, gets the rest of the crew safely back to space. What they don't know is that the piece of debris was not fatal and Watney wakes up the only living thing on the planet Mars. He knows that help is coming in the form of a planned supply drop but he'll have to survive for four years before that occurs. Scientists at NASA frantically bounce back ideas with scientists at the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) to come up with any ways to bring him home alive, no matter how insane they may be.
Best use of soundtrack in any nominee I've seen so far, especially the end credit song. Super obvious but no less perfect for that. Matt Damon is funny and charming, bringing an inherent good cheer to the character. I don't know if anybody else could have played it as well, but I was still conscious of watching Matt Damon. He didn't disappear so I don't know that I would give him Best Actor. Looks like this is DiCaprio's race to lose.
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