Between two stools.

Rating: 2/10 (1 January 2017)

This movie falls to the ground really hard.
Creators of the film did set the ambitious and extremely difficult task. Making a movie with a simple plot, limited amount of characters; with romance and action elements in a modern SF shell, promising to be a piece of art. What filmmakers had initially? - Good, professional and profitable cast - Budget - A fine director *well I did think so* -Aggressive marketing. U can not wish more.
Shades of genres replace each other during the movie. Adventure, Drama, Romance. What did we get after all?
All Random mode is real here. Random events force random people to make random actions yet the trailer promises us an interesting and captivating story. If you are here for a good screenplay - pass by.
There were a lot of prerequisites for huge dramatic twists. But we get nothing. All the rough edges are softened. The plot makes characters live in a disbelief world. No dramatic events at all. A $ 110000000 movie (my head hurts) denies basic laws of physics several times. It is a classic flaw of crappy SF movies: when some horrifyingly complicated engine is going crazy and all is falling apart, you already know halfway through how the problem will be solved.
Romance? More like bromance. While perfect acting of Chris Pratt actually is believable, Jennifer looks like a lackluster. A simple eye candy whom Chris leaves no "blanket". The dissonance makes acting chemistry look questionable. Typical "Love u, hate u, ah, screw this, love u again". You can not empathize with the female hero: even if she dies, well, good for us. Like the world needed another annoying ass selfish writer who can not even write.
Action and visual effects were on point. The set decorator and the production designer did a lot of work. And again we are facing the ugly truth of the modern filmmaking: graphics and world design out-weights, distracts, aims to hide ALL the flaws of the screenplay and directing.
Enormous amount of resources (human and financial) were invested in this just to make a beautiful picture which gives nothing new, fresh or artistically valuable. Everything is used a lot of times. Here "Gravity" cosplay, there some robovac and android trivia. Not one bit creativity.
1 star for well-crafted environment and visuals. 1 star for Chris Pratt as he carried the only exciting first minutes.
The rest is not worth mentioning. U can never trick a true connoisseur of movie art. No CGI can replace good old directing and screenplay, not today. Sorry 'bout that.