Half baked science fiction so thoughtlessly conceived people understood something was wrong even if they couldn't articulate it.

Rating: Null/10 (12 March 2018)

Nothing about this film makes sense and that undermines any story they were trying to tell. A 120 year one way journey brings up all sorts of questions, and instead they fixate on the dumbest one. The conceit is that the main character of the mechanic is paying his way to a new colony through his indentured servitude. His skills 120 years out of date by the time he arrives, what corporate waits 120 years for a return, let alone 240 years for their ship to return home with what exactly to pay for this? Space taxes? A 240 year old ship would be obsolete scrap making the round trip pointless. Every crew member on that ship may as well exist outside of normal time, returning home to everyone they know being dead for 240 years at a time, their skills also being 240 years out of date, how are they to continue in their careers. They further dig the hole into self defeating absurdity by demonstrating they have AI on the level of having moral concerns, able to deceive when necessary, and this is what they install on a nothing bot, this level of tech renders the entire crew obsolete, and makes the empty ship unable to interact or help him all the more absurd. Nothing about this world they constructed makes sense, people may have not been able to articulate it, but they felt it. It deserves the low rating it got. I mean seriously, why would anyone build a luxury cruise liner level ship for vacations where if you ever got home everyone you know would be long dead. It was a goodbye forever ship, and they turned it into a silly Jennifer Lawrence vehicle.
It kind of says everything that the mainstream media reviewers fixated on the silly politics of "wage gaps" rather than the massive holes in the plot and just overall botched conception of the future when discussing this film. It could have been fixed so easily, just make them space Mormons, now they have a motivation which makes sense, and a moral and spiritual conflict to explore. Instead they took the easy route and explored nothing.