Neither the rapport between Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt nor the impressive effects can fairly redeem this shallow sci-fiIt might be easier to forgive the cursory plotting and the underdeveloped characters of this lightweight sci-fi whether the whole story wasnt predicated on a single act of staggering selfishness.
Passengers on the spaceship Avalon spend most of the 125-year journey in suspended animation. They are scheduled to be roused from their sleep pod just a few months before they land on their new colony world,Homestead II. But something goes wrong and one pod malfunctions. Engineer Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) finds himself awake and alone with 90 years still left to travel. His only company is android bartender Arthur (Michael Sheen). Sheen is chillingly smarmy in the role, giving a trace of the performance that might gain been whether someone had bothered to write some snappier dialogue. Jim is close to hurling himself out of the nearest airlock when he stumbles upon Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence).
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Source: theguardian.com