Fascinating storyline, great writing/acting, beautiful scenes

Rating: 9/10 (1 January 2017)

I rarely watch a movie that stays in my head or that I want to watch again. But this film had all the components: engaging storyline, compelling acting, beautiful scenes.
The story was somewhere between a techno-future retelling of Adam and Eve and great love story. The idea of moving to a new colony planet, why a person would do that and the challenges characters face when their hybernation is interrupted, along the human struggle when met with a lifetime of solitude made the story very compelling.
I've never seen Chris Pratt before, but his acting was excellent in this role. It's as much a psychological/human story as it is sci-fi. I found the ethical dilemma center to the story to be believable, and the ending. It's not a simple girl chooses guy/love, if that's how you see Aurora's character, you're not paying attention. She does write the epic story with a 5,000 passenger captive audience (and everyone back on earth since it's the first time anything like this happened on a colony ship), she just doesn't get to enjoy the fame; it isn't what she planned, which is one of the themes that resonates.