An average space survival film

Rating: 5/10 (21 December 2016)

I like both Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence so I had some excitement for this film but it ended up being a huge disappointment. The premise of the film sees a group of people on a ship to a new planet when one of the passengers wakes up and things start to go wrong. Chris Pratt is the main character in this film, no matter what the trailers say and he is brilliant in this film. He is easily the best part of this film and gives his usual humorous performance but adds a large amount of dramatic depth to his character that really worked for the film. Jennifer Lawrence plays aurora in this film and she does a good job in the film, I thought her and Pratt had good chemistry in the film and her character does get more interesting as the film progresses. I did find her character a little annoying at first but she grew on me as the film progressed. Michael sheen plays Arthur the android bartender and he is really good in this film providing allot of fun moments and good banter with the other two characters. But then there are some wasted characters such as Laurence fishburne and Andy Garcia who really add absolutely nothing To this film. The story both first half of the film sees Pratt's character Jim surviving on the ship by himself and I really liked seeing him survive and go through the cool parts of he ship. However, once Jennifer Lawrence character came into the film it slowed down allot and you feel like the film is really dragging with nothing that interesting. The script is incredibly bland though, there is just not enough uniqueness to it or enough for you to care about it. The style of the film has good special effects and a good thriller style towards the end of the film. But it feels like a very long film that just doesn't have enough substance in it. Overall this is an average film that doesn't have much uniqueness to it and it isn't worth a watch.