The starship excels, everything else fails

Rating: 3/10 (9 March 2017)

This movie is another one of these modern movies I'd like to call "designed lifestyle movies". Take a sci-fi story, enough CGI and two popular actors and go ahead. Unfortunately, there are some other things like good script, logic, atmosphere and so on. The last one is where most of such movies fail. It takes almost two hours but in this case I'd preferred the usual 1.5 hours many US mainstream movies have, would have been enough.
But it's not a demanding, sophisticated movie, there is no real good acting (Martin Sheen being the exception), no real suspension, no real catastrophe (in the end the ship is just all fine, as at the beginning of the journey), a way too simple script and a lame ending. Basically, just some simple and cheap entertainment, packed in a nice form and featuring two actors who have to drag the audience in. Most of them might ending up being quite disappointed and rightfully so.
Either you make a real disaster, a psychological or a philosophical movie, but trying to mix them all up in one thin soup doesn't work out, and that's what we got here.
But: the starship is really cool and closer to a real one than most others; might have been inspired by Stanislaw Lems "Fiasko" starship. And that's just about the best of the movie. So, enjoy the CGI views of the ship.