Another weak female character drifting through the vastness of interstellar plot holes

Rating: 3/10 (7 August 2017)

I'm sorry, I want to like this movie but I have a real hard time getting past the central theme of it. This is a movie about a man, who when fate cruelly but effectively takes his life from him, chooses that the best thing to do is to cruelly take the life away from the first pretty young thing he finds on board so that she can now dedicate her suddenly empty life to taking care of him. AND SHE DOES! What kind of patriarchal crap is that?!? Sure, her whole character seems to have been conveniently structured to play this role willingly (how perfect for our male lead) but what kind of message does this movie leave?!? It was once said that an author can ask the audience to make one impossible leap with them but no more. That was supposed to be belief in an amazing starship that makes interplanetary colonization possible but this movie asks us to make two impossible leaps beyond that. One is in a starship so perfect (and bizarre - it is a luxury liner or a colony ship?) that malfunctions are unheard of and yet it cannot figure out how to awaken a *single* staff member in case of some situation it cannot auto-handle. Even if you accept it was programed to avoid that option until all else failed it had two years to fail in fixing the situation and watching it slowly deteriorate and still would rather blow up than wake anyone. Maybe because for some reason it can do anything except put people back to sleep for some crazy reason but even that logic does not hold up when compared against utter destruction.
The second leap, which I already referred to, was that this woman Aurora could fall so utterly head-over-heels in love with the man Jim who took all her hopes and dreams from her so he would not be lonely! Can you even imagine the violation that Aurora would have felt when she found out?!? Certainly, it never occurred to Jim who in all his time "agonizing" over whether or not to wake her apparently never asked himself the question about what she might say or feel if awakened! He therefore found himself *completely* without any kind if a plan or thought in his head about how to proceed after sabotaging her pod and goes with "just let her assume it was an accident and ask the bro-bot to keep quiet about it". Yet despite suffering this horrific betrayal all she needs is a little time to pout and a few good ol' fashioned action sequences and suddenly she doesn't give a damn about every other soul on that ship as long as she does not lose her true love who apparently now completes her. Even when she is handed the solution to rejoin the rest of the crew (why not wake up once a year for a few days to keep him company since the writers decided to only leave a ticket for one back to Homestead?) she could suddenly no longer imagine a life without this entitled macho prick.
In short, I cannot recommend this. If you were only after a good sci-fi thriller then it is going to be wrecked for you by the massive plot holes and contrived scenarios. If you wanted a romance then it is going to be wrecked by the two-dimensional writing for the female lead who was apparently nothing more than a prize to be claimed and is unrecognizably complicit in discarding all her disgust and betrayal so that she can live out her feminine duty to love and nurture him despite her own plans for her own life that he stole from her.
But, hey, great effects if that is enough for you.