Movie Review: Stuck on Mars — it's a giggle

02 October 2015 - 02:06
By Tim Robey, ©The Daily Telegraph

If it's the goal of great science fiction to boldly go where no man has gone before, an entry-level problem for The Martian is that it seems to be planting its space boots in some recently trodden turf. For Matt Damon, the whole movie is another lost-in-space pick-up attempt, after his similar part in Interstellar.

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