Simple Love Story Which is Larger than the Sum of its Parts

Rating: 8/10 (26 February 2017)

In the end you would end up thinking this was a movie with simple story, but all the elements of storytelling come together so brilliantly in this movie that it leaves you spellbound.
I read some reviews wherein folks are bashing this movie for being a pseudo sci-fi movie, and I agree it is not that at all except that it takes place on a space ship. But its a love story at its core. If you want to watch a good romantic flick, go for it.
The beginning is a tad bit slow, but then it picks up pace and takes the audience on a journey which is dreamy yet real. Chris Pratt is stranded on a spaceship which is scheduled to land on a new world in 90 years, but he is somehow woken up due to some malfunction and faces a reality of dying before reaching the destination planet.
In his despair he decides to wake up Jenifer Lawrence, who is lovable as always, and the chemistry between the two of them is simply brilliant from the time these two meet. You see these two fall in love like in a fairytale but then there is the secret of Chris waking up Lawrence which threatens to break the bond these two have formed living alone on the spaceship.
In the end this movie leaves you with a message that You can't get so hung up on where you'd rather be, that you forget to make the most of where you are.
The soundtrack by Thomas Newman is dreamy, with some bits reminding you of Interstellar. The chemistry between Chris Pratt and Jenifer Lawrence is effortlessly natural. The screenplay does justice to the story nicely.
Jenifer Lawrence moves between all emotions with equal panache and Chris Pratt delivers in this romantic drama as well as he did in GotG.
Definitely an 8/10 for me.