The Martian

PG-13
Starring: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastian, Jeff Danials, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Donald Glover, Kate Mara, Michael Pena and Kristed Wiig
Running Time: 2 Hours and 21 Minutes

"The Martian" is obviously about space travel and the planet Mars. Matt Damon stars as Mark Watney, both an astronaut and a botanist. He is part of the crew on the manned mission to Mars. While they are on Mars, a very severe storm develops and Astronaut Watney is hit by a large flying object.  He was knocked unconscious, the crew saw no sign of life in him and decide they must abort their mission before their spacecraft sustains any more damage from the intense storm.
Just one small, insignificant issue... Astronaut Watney is still alive!!!
 When he wakes up from his delusional state, much to his horror, he finds himself completely alone! Just a mere 221 million miles from the planet Earth. There is not another mission to Mars planned by NASA for another four more years.
When he is able to get up, he realizes he has been impaled by a large stick or pole, which he needs to remove and treat the wound immediately, (Not really for the faint of heart), it is a pretty gruesome scene. He actually handles the situation very well, shooting off some F-bomb expletives, (quite a few times).. He realizes that he is completely dependent on himself if he intends to survive!
As he heals up, he plans out what he must do to sustain his life and survive in this hostile environment. He only has enough supplies to sustain life for thirty-one days!
He becomes very resourceful and clever. He finds out that he is indeed, very ingenious.
He also tries frantically to try and contact NASA, where eventually, he is successful.
NASA tries frantically to pull strings to send him supplies and also to figure out some way to rescue him.
I don't want to divulge too much of the plot and spoil the movie. I will just say that I thought it was a great, edge of your seat, very entertaining movie.
Matt Damon was excellent as Astronaut Mark Watney. He did an outstanding job!
 There was also some fun humor set against the serious side of the movie as well.
I believe that there will be a lot of comparisons made to the 2013 movie "Gravity" with Sandra Bullock, but, I can also see a little bit of the movie "Castaway" starring Tom Hanks in 2000 as well.
Parents be advised: This is rated PG-13, it is fairly strong subject matter being left all alone on a planet so far away. The F-bomb is dropped multiple times and even spelled out on the NASA computers from all of Astronaut Watney's frustration. Plus, Matt Damon does a total nude shot of his entire back side in one brief scene. I think children ages 13 and over will be entertained by this movie if, they (and their parents) are comfortable with the F-bombs and the nude scene.
I am giving "The Martian" four bags of popcorn.