About 500 years from now a colony ship takes a 120-year trip to a new land.

Rating: Null/10 (14 October 2018)

My wife and I watched this movie on DVD from our public library.
OK, this is science fiction, a very large space ship designed by movie-makers, and not all the time and speed references add up. Because it is fiction. If that overly bothers anyone they just shouldn't watch the movie.
But it is more a human interest "what would you do?" theme, and after we see what they did what do we think of it? In the grand scheme of humanity, human relations, and right vs wrong in a poorly defined situation.
According to the filmmakers this takes place about 500 years in the future, the Earth is overcrowded, a company has started colonizing new worlds. In this story a ship of 258 crew members and 5000 passengers are placed in a hibernation mode for the totally automatic 120-year trip at about half the speed of light. To a world about 60 light years away. That makes back-and-forth communication impractical.
An unexpected incident occurs, one passenger, a man, is awakened after only 30 years. He quickly realizes that he is still 90 years away from the destination, he won't live that long. Should he wake up someone else so that he will have company? Of course doing so would short-circuit all her plans and in essence deliver a death sentence. What is the moral thing to do?
Jennifer Lawrence is the female as Aurora Lane and the male is Chris Pratt as Jim Preston. The third main character is Michael Sheen as the andriod Arthur who also happens to be the bartender. He doesn't judge, he just serves the drinks and dispenses friendly bartender advice.
We enjoyed it, one of the more entertaining movies we have seen recently. The set designs and special effects, as well as the soundtrack, are really great too.