Completely different film from the trailers!

Rating: 6/10 (28 December 2016)

Before watching this film my advice would be not to watch any of the trailers for the film because the trailers show a completely different film to what it actually is. This film is no huge sprawling sci-fi epic it is an intimate film about two strangers together in an extraordinary circumstance with the backdrop of space.
Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt are good in the film, although I believe that the film has to much of a hope that the actors names will draw people into seeing this film, those times are over and even actor such as Tom Cruise maybe loosing there star power. However back to Lawrence and Pratt, as mentioned were good and the emotional heart of the film considering that this about there journey. The audience can definitely resonate with both of them through the film and both of them show good chemistry together on the screen. Even though we have an emotional connection to both of them you never feel overly concerned for them in anyway situation that they get themselves into, which is unfortunate but that falls on the script and director. Neither of their performances were out of this world.......pun intended.....but I think that this film was crying out for one of them to just stand out a little.
The other main positive of the film are the special effects in the film. The effect are good in this film but yet again nothing that we haven't seen before or groundbreaking and that ultimately is what this films crying out for. Just one aspect of the film had to be that extra special and it would had much more of an impact on the viewing experience. However the effects of the ship are really cool and an interesting design too, the production design of the film is very minimalistic only showing was is needed there is nothing overboard.
The negatives of the film are mainly story based and unfortunately the story of the film is actually rather ordinary. The idea of two complete strangers stuck on a empty space ship heading for a new planet has the potential of being really interesting and that's what the trailers of the film showed. Without spoiling the main reveal of the film, which happens about 20 minutes into the film, there are specific reasons why Jennifer Lawrence's character wakes up. I believe that the film could of handled this much better by not telling us and making it the big mystery of the film, leading towards a big reveal which would made this film ten times more interesting. However due to the fact that we find out the "twist" early there are no other twist or big dramas that happen in the rest of the film. In the end the film just slowly grinds to a halt as if the film tried to leave us on this big huge emotional ending that never payed off or happened. If the character twist had not be revealed until the end the actual proper ending to the film it would have been much more of an emotional punch.
In the end this film has good performances and good special effects, however the weak and uneventful story is just unfortunately ordinary. If this film had been like it was portrayed in the trailers this film could have been so much better, you don't believe me watch one of the trailers after you've seen the film and you may see what I mean. 60 % out of 100 I think that the performances and effects just about keep this film interesting and enjoyable watch at times. Unfortunately this film banks on people seeing it for its two main leads when actually it should be more focused on the story of the film itself. Average/Good however it could have been great!