This is a good movie (Ignore the bad reviews)

Rating: 8/10 (6 April 2017)

At first I was hesitant to watch this movie because of all the bad reviews I have read about it. As a picky/critical moviegoer myself, I didn't want to waste my time on bad shows or movies.
I wanted to see for myself and confirm the bad reviews. So, even if I am not a Jennifer/Chris fan, I went out and saw the movie. To my surprise, I loved it!
If you are into good story telling on self conflict, empathy, human nature, and some romance, then you would like or even love this movie.
The only reason I could think of why it got so much bad reviews are probably: (1) when people think about "Sci-Fi" they expect to see high octane action, scientifically plausible concepts/ideas, etc.; -- It's called Science "Fiction" for a reason. A lot of ideas, physics, technologies in the movie are too convenient / ridiculous but are all forgivable in my opinion.
(2) people expect the main characters of always doing the right thing (all the time). * SPOILER HERE * -- I expected Jim (Chris) to do the right thing when he was contemplating on waking up Aurora (Jen), and she'll eventually wake up on her own with a malfunction of some sort. So I was very disappointed when he did. But I realized as the movie progressed, that waking her made the story and eventually saved not just Aurora, but the rest of the crew and passengers.
(3) they felt that the story did not fit the setting. -- They could have set this in a cruise ship in the sea, a bus on the road, or a group castaways stranded on an island, etc. For me, it does not matter what the setting is, as long as the gist of the story is told effectively.
(4) they felt empty because at the ending they were already gone. * SPOILER HERE * -- This is how I felt somehow, I wanted them to be alive and live happily every after (as most stories do). But, realized that they did lived out their lives together and (probably) happy.

- - - - I do have one criticism on the ending but it's more of a wishful thinking: * SPOILER HERE * Why didn't they bother waking up the crew and ask for help to go back to sleep? They do have Lawrence's access band. Possibly: They wanted to just live out their lives together on the ship and their search for adventure or new life has ended (?)