Nate Hesselgrave

This is probably a good love story but it really sucks as a sci fi movie. The writing, dialog and acting are all good. But all the sci fi premises are really weak. Essentially, I learned by watching this movie that it's probably not possible to do either genre justice in one 2 hour film. Actually, they made a solid love story, as cheesy as all of those are. But in order to do that, we're given an extremely hollow and shallow sci fi film. It's a mall in space, including classism. Chris Pratt is supposed to be an engineer and he's shrugging off a couple years worth of cascading system failures because he's lonely. The ship falling apart is hardly paid attention to until Laurence Fishburn wakes up. So many scientific and engineering faux pas have to be written in so we can make the script work. It's no good, you catch it and spend 3/4 of the movie shaking your head. The writing barely keeps it afloat, but the ship and it's design idiocies start undoing your entertainment from the get go. "They wouldn't have overlooked that. They would have designed a contingency for that. Crew would have been woken up if automated repair failed. Crew would have been woken up if a hibernation chamber failed like that." There are a million thoughts like that. Maybe this movie kinda flopped for that reason. It doesn't work at all as a sci fi film and I don't know what love story fanatics would see in it either.