Enjoyable, if you don't think too much about it.

Rating: 8/10 (24 December 2016)

Let me start off by saying I enjoyed this film. Two very pretty actors who very good at their jobs, with support from Michael Sheen, made the almost 2 hour run time fly past. They, and Laurence Fishburn to a lesser extent, all did exactly which was asked of them. I actually laughed a lot more in this film than I thought I would have - but maybe that was just my dry sense of humour, but the Sheen character provided a lot of these juxtaposed moments.
The problems come with the script and the plot. The movie doesn't really know what it wants to be, and therefor struggles with its own identity. It could have easily been a love story, or a disaster movie, or even something much deeper, but fails to really tick any of these boxes. It introduces very complex questions at an early stage: what would you do if the only person you will ever know or love for the rest of your life, decided your fate and to take your sense of purpose away because he was lonely? It then glosses over the emotional implication of this - for example why is she never shown to be anything other than angry? Why isn't she scared, why isn't she empowered? And most of all, why does it not matter as soon as the threat of life or death for others is introduced? She is already dead, as he took her life away, so why should she care any more.
I can get over the questions relating to the science of the film, its left ambiguous enough that we don't know how long has passed from present day and which technology advances have happened, which can possibly power the ship for 120 years at half the speed of light, for example. There could have also been additions to clear up the time between the last time we see them, and the end of the film - once they had dedicated the main characters were choosing love above all, adding a child to this would have introduced even more thought provoking questions, but I can see why they didn't want to add more.
Yes there are big plot holes, yes there are dues ex machinas and yes the film raises more questions than it answers. But it was enjoyable, sexy and fun. Michael Sheen's performance as the comic android was a personal highlight. Would I see it again? Probably not, but I'd recommend it to my parents.