A glitch in space

Rating: 5/10 (2 March 2017)

Passengers has great special effects, production design but the interesting and intriguing premise of the plot is squandered.
Set in the future, an intergalactic spacecraft is taking a 120 year voyage to another planet to be colonised by five thousand volunteers who are in hibernation.
Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) a mechanical engineer is woken up and thinks the ship has got near the planet. What he finds instead that he is alone and no one else is awake. He cannot get back to his pod and go back to hibernation. He has the ship at his disposal but as he was not a premium passenger he cannot get the premium services such as a better breakfast. His only companion is the android bartender on duty.
After a year, his biological needs gets the better of him and when he sees a beautiful woman in a pod he deliberately wakes her up. She is Aurora Lane (Jennifer Lawrence) a journalist and Preston tells her that like him she has woken up due to a malfunction.
Of course he has committed an immoral act by waking her up and she will not be able to get back to hibernation. Aurora will die in this ship before the journey ends.
Pretty soon both of them fall in love, well there is no one else in the ship besides the android bartender and the robo-vacuum cleaners. The film takes a turn when Aurora finds out the truth and it simply becomes a domestic drama of two people with irreconcilable differences.
The last act of the film concerns the pair investigating the increased glitches in the ship, what is causing it and how to fix it. The film is a mash up of different genres and it loses its way a bit.
It also has a strange vision of corporate space colonisation. While Preston is an economy class passenger Aurora is a premium class one. She has a better breakfast when she is awoken but there is no reason for it when the passengers are going to be in long term hibernation apart from the last few months of the journey. When Preston tries to send a distress message back to earth, the message will take years to get back to earth and he is charged a fortune for it. Who will collect the money and how?