The details were too far-fetched

Rating: 5/10 (5 January 2017)

Where to start with this? This movie has a great story to it, but some of the details could have made for a better movie.
It was a great concept in this movie; humanity finds a new planet to inhabit. But the only problem is it takes 120 years of traveling to get there. So in order to successfully get there, the people would need to be put in a deep sleep (hibernation) in individual pods. There was only a capacity of 5,000 people for each journey.
But of course, something goes wrong to where Jim, played by Chris Pratt, was woken up 90 years too early. He had no way of going back into his hibernation, so he was left with two options- survival or suicide. It was cool to see him as he went about his day and what he would do. But it was too short lived. He was only alone for a little over a year before he decided to override the system to wake Aurora, played by Jennifer Lawrence. It seemed like way too short of a time frame for Jim to have already gone crazy.
The main thing that did not make sense about this movie was the 120 year trip. For a trip that takes so long, why are we only able to send 5,000 people at a time? Also, there was a scene where Jim had tried to send a distress message to the people on Earth, but it would have taken 19 years for delivery and 55 years for a response, and it would cost over $6,000. Also, the passengers themselves did not make sense. Considering that there is a limit to each trip of 5,000 people and it takes 120 years to travel, the people that were being sent were middle class people. Jim was an engineer. Aurora was a journalist. For a voyage like this, I would have thought that it would have been for only the top 1/10 percentile of the top 1/10 percentile of the upper class on Earth. Who other can afford to pay over $6,000 for a single message?
The ending was too short. Once Jim and Aurora find out why the ship was malfunctioning, it was a matter of about 10 minutes of the movie for it to be fixed. There was opportunity for a stronger finish here.
Overall the movie's story was fine, but it could have been much more concrete. For a survival type movie, there could have been much more of a challenge presented to Jim and Aurora to make the story more thrilling.