Flawed, but Beautiful.

Rating: 7/10 (29 December 2016)

Shoulda been a 9 or higher at IMDb and 90%+ at Rotten Tomatoes, but....
There was a handful of small flaws and an effing big one. This probably cost them 50-points at RT and cut box office by 80%.
I won't tell what that is. What I will do is warn you that it's there and suggest you forgive it ahead of time, so that you'll actually buy a ticket. I promise, you'll get your $12 worth, and probably rent it from RedBox to watch again.
This movie is everything they promise in the trailers.You already know that the scenery is awesome. Beyond the very scenic JLaw and CPratt, the big Space Cruise Liner is imagined and executed exactly as promised in the trailers. Which is to say beautifully.
JLaw and CPratt carry the whole film and they totally deliver. Better than you have any reason to expect, except that HEY! it's JLaw and CPratt!
Both characters look into the abyss at different times, and each makes fate-filled decisions that drive the movie.
The WTF of that big effing flaw is a mystery to me. Any kid who got a "C" in 8th grade science will spot it, which means at least 500 of the 1,000 or so folks who worked this movie would have mentioned it to the director Morton Tyldom. He left it in. I won't tell you what it sets up, which is kinda cool, but it does NOT drive the plot, and should have been cut for "Deleted Scenes" on the DVD release
SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF. Sci-fi asks us to suspend some disbelief, but the director never gets a blank check. Once a film creates a universe with its own rules, the director is responsible for maintaining those rules. Failure to do so, drops the viewer out of suspended disbelief, insulting our intelligence along the way. This is both wrong and expensive. It's painful to the audience, it's also painful to the movie's box-office earnings.
Sorry about the rant, I did like the movie and do recommend it. Wish I could give it a 9 or 10.