Long Flight, Bad Movie

Rating: 6/10 (13 April 2017)

Pacing is way off on this visually impressive space ride that suffers from a dull script and low key performances from the major players. (Although, in fairness, one of them is playing a robot.) The premise is cool, about a lone castaway stranded within the confines of a spaceship heading to a new colony light years from earth, but we've seen the 'isolated castaway' done before and better in everything from 'The Shining' and 'Castaway' to the more recent 'Gravity and 'The Martian'. Jennifer Lawrence is wasted and Pratt proves he can carry a movie without falling back on his usual boyish charms; still there is little chemistry. Everything seems hurried and predictable. A major flaw that is difficult to overlook (and would have been easy to fix) makes it almost impossible to be sympathetic to Platt's character. (Suffice to say he's not really on the ship that long to justify the drastic choice he makes.) And whoever said "there are no small roles just small actors" was wrong. Sometimes there ARE just small roles. Just ask Andy Garcia.