Better than what critics say

Rating: 7/10 (15 March 2017)

The movie was better than I thought. At first I was expecting some kind of a cliché movie that has a cookie cutter plot, this is probably the first movie where the whole idea of a generational ship is fleshed out.
The movie does contain numerous plot holes, artistic licenses, and inaccuracies but I guess all movies have them. For example, why would they fly a colony ship with only one auto doc (considering that the ship has 5000 passengers), with a rather mediocre computer repair subroutine, and no way to wake a crew member should something go wrong. The way the ship's computer assuming that no failure or errors could happen just seems to suggest to me that they treat those colony ships as expendable. They could just wake a handful of crew members every year for a couple of weeks to check things and make sure everything work the way they should. In fact it seems irresponsible that there's no way to put someone in stasis again (more auto docs anyone??) Despite that, I still think the movie is better than what their box office performance suggests, namely the whole colony ship idea and how things could possibly go wrong, so if humanity were to do anything like this in the future they'd know to plan ahead...
I somehow think that they could have very easily said that Earth was destroyed in some disaster (giant asteroid impacts or something) and that Avalon is one of the many colony ships sent out in order to preserve humanity... it would certainly make the plot far more dire because now instead of saving just a few thousand lives, they are saving mankind.