A Sci-Fi and Romance Mix with Impresive CGI Effects!

Rating: 10/10 (23 September 2017)

I wish I had seen this on a bigger screen. Movie critics also panned "John Carter" which was a great movie as well. It is so obvious that many of the professional critics are not Sci-Fi fans, by the way they battered a very likable film. A bit like "When World's Collide" and "Titanic in Space". It's a little predictable and implausible as well. One passenger on a journey to a new world wakes up 89 years too soon, when his suspended animation pod "blows a fuse". Judging on all the skills he has knowledge of, he's not a mechanical engineer, he's "Scotty" or "Spock" from Star Trek! He wakes up another passenger on purpose as he appears to need good-looking female companionship and stimulation. The first half of the film is a bit slow, but the "space walk" and tour of the ship is fascinating. It's certainly a lot better-paced than the slow motion reveal in Star Trek I. In hour 2, everything falls apart including the space ship's power core. First their love affair freezes over when she discovers that he woke her up. One crew member wakes up, just long enough before dying to keep the spaceship "afloat". Then as the power core overheats, the power fails, they both turn into "Astronauts" and go outside the ship to unjam a stuck emergency vent and each other. He should have died, but she revives him using the super-dooper DIY medical machine. (Really!) Also, why isn't he burned (or radioactive) from the engine breach? Why it works for us space movie "nuts": Great CGI. When all gravity fails, the swimming pool rises up and turns into an (almost) death trap. It's enjoyable and exciting and has a pleasant (yes, predictable) happy ending. On my "Starz" version the slight nudity might be cable-edited?