Visual Candy

Rating: 6/10 (16 February 2017)

Must be seen big screen - or at least a really big screen in your man cave. Great sci-fi and sets. More plot holes than Swiss cheese. People have pointed out the science nonsense, so I won't, but there is lots. Just suspend (everything) and enjoy. I read that Jennifer Lawrence made almost twice as much as Chris Pratt. She earned that percentage. When he sticks to action, like Jurassic World, it works. Here, he has to act and justify his emotional reactions... nope. Odd staring passes for acting I guess. To me he came off more as a stalker or just creepy than as a hero. It doesn't matter that his selfish choices turned out to be irrelevant in the end.
Plot: 5200 people on a 120 year suspended animation flight to colonize a new planet. Two wake up. They spent money on the CG and salaries. It could have been a 10 page short story. Still great fun to watch, but I had to keep shutting down synapses that objected to the implausibilities. Go see and be entertained.