No Science in the Sci-Fi

Rating: 6/10 (30 September 2018)

I pretty much agree with the 5/10 review by Stefan Morcov. A romance, love/hate story aboard a spaceship headed for a distant galaxy and planet. The first half of movie moved much too slow, remaking the Robinson Crusoe role. Even after he awakens Aurora, watching them dine and dance, etc. took much too long. The trailers and official studio promos say that the 2 sleep pods malfunction. The one surprise is that the "hero" disables the girl's pod for his own "companionship" needs. I don't blame her for beating the c**p out of him when she finds out! Being the mechanical engineer that he is, he swings a great sledgehammer to fix things. Agree with the alternative solutions which Stefan offers. Once the Officer's pod malfunctioned and he awoke, they had full access to controls of the ship. An awakening of key crew member(s) would have been extremely important at that point. Also agree that 5200+ passengers and crew needed more than 1 autodoc bed. Therefore could have put those awake back to sleep after crisis over. A miracle that Jim survived the plasma blast while in space and didn't die of radiation poisoning.
Beautiful visuals and CGI. All in all, glad I didn't pay big bucks to see this in theatre, but watched on DVD from library. Only gave 6 instead of Stefan's 5 because of the special effects, visuals and CGI.