Rom Com with peril

Rating: 6/10 (15 January 2017)

I read a lot of reviews before going to see this. I was pleasantly surprised. However it is not Science Fiction but Space Opera. I was caught out by the play for laughs but it did that well. It also dealt well with the moral issues faced and the acting, directing and photography were all good, but the whole 'willing suspension of disbelief' part was difficult. The treatment of hard SF - the time taken for a message to be received when travelling at relativistic speed - and fantasy - a spinning ship does not require artificial gravity - was haphazard, and the truly unbelievable part was that the whole enterprise was funded by a for profit corporation. No company would wait 250 years for a return on investment, there would be no point, and no way to enforce the contract. A more probable explanation for the system failures would be that it was intended never to make land fall and the whole thing was a scam. With all of the passengers singletons whose entire families would be gone by the time they woke up, no one would care if they never actually did. I am not going to go into how you really would do a colony ship, suffice to say that it was a pleasant way to spend a couple of hours, although If I had been in the chair the final scene would have involved the crew waking up not to find the ship changed, but a couple wrapped in each others arms in stasis in the auto doc pod.