A good idea ruined by Hollywood-action-stereotypes

Rating: 6/10 (28 February 2017)

In the last years most SF-movies just deal with dystopies, one darker than the other. If you grew up with Buck Rogers and Star Trek and like SF-worlds that offer an alternative way of living or at least some perspective, you will like this one - until it finally turns into crap. The plot is great, the acting is fine, there are a lot of good ideas in it, a lot of good visual effects (a swimming pool during a failure of artificial gravity...) and there is even an essential ethical issue in it - actually the moments when SF really unfolds its potential.
But finally it turns into one of those completely implausible action flicks.
SPOILERS: The idea that the two main characters (passengers!) are able to save the gigantic vessel is somehow far fetched in the first instance, but it could have been written in a way that would have made it plausible. If there would have been just some minor, little damage, some insignificant computer error the story would have been working. And it would have been more SF! It would have been a comment on the naiveté of men, to put their lives in the hand of machines.
But, no, it has to be the impact of a meteorite! And an overload of the fusion reactor! Holes in the shell plates of the ship! And completely destroyed computer panels! And everything has to collapse right in the moment were they discover the damage! So they (a writer and a mechanic!) repair the computer within several minutes (!!!) And they know how to cool down the reactor (!!!) Find a little hatch on the outside of the gigantic ship within a few minutes and know how to open it (!!!) Then the guy is able to survive the blow-out of a fusion reactor, shielding himself with a small door (!!!) He is not even catapulted out into the vast empty space but is levitating just within reach around the ship with a cracked helmet (!!!) and she is able to get in to the space-suit so fast that she still can save him within time. Then they live happily ever after. In a paradise garden they planted on the spacecraft. With gigantic trees that had just 89 years to grow. And birds (wtf?!). Where does this bird in the last scene come from? Did it grew on a tree?
Conclusion: A fine SF-movie in the first half ruined by stupid blockbuster standards in the second. What a waste of money and talent.