Not exactly what I was expecting

Rating: 6/10 (30 December 2016)

Initially, this film seems interesting, captivating and full of content. After explaining in brief detail why 5000 odd passengers are aboard the ship, Jim (Pratt) awakens after a pod malfunction. For the first thirty minutes or so the film follows his struggles alone and outlines how unhelpful the ship is. This is partially the reason for the low stars because it just seems so unbelievable. Everyone seems to emphasis how these pods can't malfunction, but 2 fail on the same journey? Even if they'd never failed before, surely the manufacturers of the ship would prepare for the worst and have staff woken every now and then to check on the ship? It makes no sense at all that they'd make no preparations for if anything went wrong which would have ultimately led to the death of the entire ship if it had been for the extraordinary luck that two of the three people who wake up during the movie can save it. If it had been anyone else, everyone would have died because they needed the crew member to tell them what was going on and how the ship was failing, and Jim to fix it.. On top of this, the romantic story line in the film is bogus! Fair enough, he was unhappy and alone and would do anything for a companion, but sentencing her to death is unfair in all its entirety . Half of the film consists of the pair being enemies after she discovers he woke her up on purpose (which is understandable). This is the main problem I had with the film- the WAY she found out. Arthur, the bartender (and seemingly the only human like robot on the ship, unlike the rest of the robots)) for some unexplained reason spills the beans? Jim specifically asks him not to tell Aurora (Lawrence)but he does it anyway a year after her awakening. What's with that? Did he have a grudge against their happiness? Was he jealous? Turning bad? Who knows, because it is never explained why Arthur suddenly decides to speak up, and Jim isn't even angry that he told her which ruined there relationship indefinitely. But apart from that,the film was generally rather good with a captivating story line for the most of it, with impressive graphics and interesting characters.. The ending, however,was absolute drivel, and you don't even get to see what the new world looks like. There was no way Jim could've survived any of his heroic acts, because being blasted with fire for an extended period of time, and having no oxygen for a good 5 minutes would definitely kill you. There's no doubt about it. Plus, I'm pretty sure space suits aren't fireproof. Anyway, apart from the films story line being unbelievable, it did keep me interested and I'd recommend it to others because I enjoyed it overall.