Beats Gravity

Rating: 8/10 (15 March 2017)

Well to start we have our male who is awakened. Mind you seeing the pod with the LAWRENCE lying in state should waken any one. There have been a few other tales out there with early waking of our heroes. The one that first comes to mind is the early sequences of ALIEN. Still hard to better those opening minutes considering how long ago that was.
This the usual tale of a sleeping journey to a colony and answered a question that I always have regarding space travel. Just how much damage can anything earth built take on such a journey when the smaller debris that is undoubtedly out there in some quantity is not charted and by its constant movement can hardly ever be. These things must surely collide and create further problems. an attempt to tell us how they might get protected was on display but in truth that idea looks like a no go in reality.
As far as the story goes within the bounds of future plausibility it all seems possible. Like a modern day liner at sea the unexpected can happen and here it did. The story that unfolded told us that the male wanted a mate and picked one that was desirable. Had Aurora been a transgender or Lesbian would another pod have to be opened. If our male had indeed been similar would there have been a need to open two pods one male and one to breed?.
Tale was for the most part normal dialogue drama with some minor excitement and humour but the ending cannot be really faulted for its life threatening moments and that the attempted sacrifice was reversible gives the audience a feel good ending. Well we cant have Jennifer being on her own for 88 years. Note that time spent in the hunger games came in handy. It must also noted that the moment where she assaulted out hero was a good piece of anger despair acting. I enjoyed this more so than Gravity and Arrival even though it had Amy Adams Jennifer played her part well. As per usual and not Bradley in sight unless he occupied one of the pods. My only problem was with the sudden increase of knowledge both acquired towards the end.