Appalling on so many fronts

Rating: 1/10 (27 December 2016)

Fair warning, this review contains spoilers, don't read it at all if you want to see this piece of trash movie.
My goodness. This is the most disturbing film I've seen in so long, perhaps ever. But first, the general comments outside of the disturbing part. This film is about a man (Chris Pratt) on an intergalactic journey on a ship with 5000 passengers and almost 300 crew who, due to a malfunction in his hibernation pod wakes up 90 years before his destination, all alone. It's about the problems he encounters and how he solves them.
That premise could make for an interesting movie in someone else's hands, but in writer Jon Spaihts version, it's one gapingly huge deus ex machina after another of impossible and unexplainable events, from medical to gravity/science to even the hospitality industry. You might expect a few of those, and if the story in general holds up, those can be overlooked, but, the story in general doesn't hold up and isn't believable. In fact, the science is so poor that I'd say this is a movie set in space rather than a science fiction movie--there's been no attempt to create any kind of cohesive scientific setting or environment.
Now for the big spoiler. The main problem I have with this movie is it takes a hugely immoral, rape-y act and makes it the basis for a love story. Also, general sexism up the wazoo.
Journalist Aurora (Get it? is the Sleeping Beauty reference beating you over the head enough?--If not, her last name is Lane, as in Lois Lane.) is another passenger asleep in her own hibernation pod, and Jim discovers her while wondering around alone. At some point, just after a year in, he makes the decision to wake her up so he can have company, even though he is condemning her to a life with just him and no one else and ruining whatever dreams she had of her new life on the new colony. This isn't spur of the moment. It's premeditated. He doesn't wake her up because she has special skills that can help him and the other passengers survive, he wakes her up because she's hot, and he's fallen a little in lust with her. He doesn't tell her he woke her up, and lets her think that her pod, too, malfunctioned.
In fact, when Aurora does find out, after they've had repeated hot sex and he's about to give her a ring, she tells him he's murdered her.
The story of the big pseudo-sciency-sort of problems they solve and how it brings them back together is rendered obscene by his taking away her life, her destiny, her choices. Jim's not a hero. In fact, the casting of sweet pretty boy Pratt instead of whoever today's Crispin Glover equivalent is makes it even worse.
Even the overslick lucite cool monochromatic palette shiny black production says bachelor dudes.
And Aurora? Aurora's dream, which Jim dashed forever, is mentioned and then killed, too. Her dream was to travel millions of light years away, stay on the new planet of Homestead II for one year, then go back to her home in New York about 450 years in the future and write about her year on the planet, because "no one has ever gone to the colonies and come back before."
It seems like someone with that kind of panache would have enough going for her, but nope, apparently not. Partway through the film, we see her looking at video from her going away party, where her best friend tells her "I hope you find someone who fills your heart and I hope you let him in." The film ends with a sickly voice-over proclaiming "Jim and I live our accidental happiness. We are all passengers — we go where life takes us".
I'm sorry I saw this movie. What a trash heap.