Could have been soo good, but they ruined it..

Rating: 6/10 (15 October 2017)

What really annoys me about this movie is that it could have been truly amazing. The first 30 minutes introduce a very intriguing world with lots of interesting ideas about colonizing other planets, space travel, habitation pods and the social aspect of it. The visuals are amazing, the design of the space ship is compelling and then we have a fantastic moral dilemma: Our protagonist can either destroy other lives to save his own or die a martyr death. What will he do? How will it turn out? Will he just wake up one person he or will he trigger a chain reaction and therefore kill the entire project? Will those people even get along with each other or will there be some Shining/Lord of the Flies-esque situation in space. Oh man, this could have been so good..
But then Hollywood hammers this movie into their mold of convention. First of all we know exactly he will wake her up because Jennifer Lawrence is on every stupid movie poster. That whole montage of him contemplating whether to do it or not is such a waste of time - it's only purpose is to show that he is actually a really good character who only acts out of desperation and not because he is evil. But it is Hollywood after all and there has to be a love story whether you like it or not. So how can we make him good again in the eyes of the audience and his love interest?
Well easy, after his morally reprehensible decision he just goes through the whole shebang of rectifying his character: He willingly accepts punishment from her, suffers in silence, literally burns in a cleansing fire and in the end selflessly offers his own life in order to first save others and then to undo his mistake. It's the ultimate price and that is why we all including Aurora can forgive him and their happy end makes perfect sense. Her character has nothing to it, is extremely predictable and only exists as a counterpart to his persona.
I'm sure Pratt and Lawrence did what they could with the material they were given, but the writing is unfortunate and I really wish this would have been an Indie movie with unknown actors and a story that we haven't already seen a gazillion times before.