killerant007

While it seems like another one of those cheesy movies you have seen on SyFy with awful special effects horrible acting and with some boring scenes. However this movie was a fun watch. It starts up attempting to be funny, some gags do not work but others are good for a chuckle but it quickly goes into hunting the spider and with some likable side characters it really was not that bad of a watch. The graphics were not good but not awful either. Most importantly the movie did not take itself seriously without going over the top like Sharknado did. Overall 6/10 a B-Movie that was fun to watch.

From an early look I thought that the movie was going to be a decent B-Movie seeing that it used some practical effect and some of the wasp creatures looked pretty cool and well done with the exception of the CGI effect. However the issue is with the characters. The main hero is shown as a slacker and not really likable but when chaos starts he turns into a hero a complete 180 of what he was. We also has Lance Henriksen who turned from the drunk Mayor to a likable aged war hero. Also during the scene where the chaos starts some of the guests seemed perfectly fine walking around acting more confused than scared. While not perfect I was entertained by the movie and the ended which I will not spoil was kind of creepy.

This movie felt like a cross between Cast Away meets Gravity. Matt Damon plays an astronaut who is stranded on Mars and has to survive and find a way off the planet. He did a good job with the role being serious and funny at the same time. While at times he can be a bit goofy it does prevent the movie from being too depressing. The way that he survives and finds ways to communicate was interesting to watch kind of like a science film but more exciting. My main problem was that some of the science I found false or unbelievable. However that is few and far between. But overall I loved the movie and is one of the top movies of the year. Final score 9/10

I was pretty excited to see this movie after waiting a whole year and I was not disappointed. The action was intense and the acting was excellent. However like any movie it has flaws. The pacing was off. In some scenes it was slow and in one major scene everything went by so fast I could not comprehend it for example a character appears in a scene and is killed before you have time to think. They also spent some time introducing characters that never made an impact other than being a redshirt and getting killed off. I will not go into Seymour Hoffman's character being different in the movie because the actor did pass away during filming which is very sad since he did so well. Overall I liked it. Some scenes had my heart racing and actors performances was excellent. Overall I could not give it over a 7 due to the flaws with pacing. But I heard that the movie was originally almost 3 hours so I hope they release an uncut version which could fix that.