Luxury spaceship Avalon has more than a malfunction, just like the script! Coming to the script, there are 5000 passengers and 250 crew members aboard this one, who seem to have embarked on a journey to the planet Homestead II. Only that the journey would take 120 years. And they are all in hibernation pods. Now, 30 years into the travel, there appears to be a breakdown and passenger Jim Preston is woken up from hibernation. (Only 90 years early!) Now, a lonely human's mind is also a devil's workshop, and he chooses to use his freewill in exploiting the beautiful Aurora Lane.
You hope for some promise in the development of the story when Jim tells Aurora the reason he chose to move onto another planet: To make things and fix something when it's broken, unlike on earth, where he was saddened to see things getting replaced, instead of being fixed. The premise seemed interesting,though, and so was the trailer. It could have turned effectively and magical, like "Avatar" or "The Martian". But then, that may have needed someone like James Cameron to helm the affairs. And soon, my hope turned into despair when it ended up being too cliched and utterly illogical.
And to think that this director, Morten Tyldum, had made the brilliant "The Imitation Game". Hmmm!
This is Hollywood's Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja. And pray, why were all the three passengers hamming in the second half?! Jennifer Lawrence is very pretty to look at but she does falter a bit towards the last several reels of the film. Chris Pratt looks clueless and expressionless for the most part. Laurence Fishburne looks like he just got out of hibernation in real life.
On a lighter note, you'd be left wondering how it is that only the male lead gets body hair with time but the female lead is clean-shaven even after a whole year post hibernation. Oh wait, maybe this is because she's a gold class passenger on the ship. LOL!
Pratt, like our desi heroes, is able to solve rocket-science problems out of thin air and save the entire state-of-the-art spaceship almost single-handedly, with his average engineering brain. And poor Lawrence is left with no choice all through the film. The one choice she could have made is skip acting in this one, as it appears to be one of her worst script choices till date, if not the worst.
Leave your brains behind and watch this one. I was caught shaking my head in disbelief on more than one occasion. Like in the scene in which our lead character is operated upon with all his clothes on. Or how he goes upon fixing the entire spacecraft like a born rocket scientist.
The best performance in the film to me was that of Michael Sheen. And my biggest take-away from this film is the beautiful, inspiring quote, "You can't get so hung up on where you'd rather be, that you forget to make the most of where you are."
My verdict: 1 out of 5. It's too illogical, cliched and dumb. For the passengers come out of hibernation mode, only to put the audiences to sleep!
You hope for some promise in the development of the story when Jim tells Aurora the reason he chose to move onto another planet: To make things and fix something when it's broken, unlike on earth, where he was saddened to see things getting replaced, instead of being fixed. The premise seemed interesting,though, and so was the trailer. It could have turned effectively and magical, like "Avatar" or "The Martian". But then, that may have needed someone like James Cameron to helm the affairs. And soon, my hope turned into despair when it ended up being too cliched and utterly illogical.
And to think that this director, Morten Tyldum, had made the brilliant "The Imitation Game". Hmmm!
This is Hollywood's Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja. And pray, why were all the three passengers hamming in the second half?! Jennifer Lawrence is very pretty to look at but she does falter a bit towards the last several reels of the film. Chris Pratt looks clueless and expressionless for the most part. Laurence Fishburne looks like he just got out of hibernation in real life.
On a lighter note, you'd be left wondering how it is that only the male lead gets body hair with time but the female lead is clean-shaven even after a whole year post hibernation. Oh wait, maybe this is because she's a gold class passenger on the ship. LOL!
Pratt, like our desi heroes, is able to solve rocket-science problems out of thin air and save the entire state-of-the-art spaceship almost single-handedly, with his average engineering brain. And poor Lawrence is left with no choice all through the film. The one choice she could have made is skip acting in this one, as it appears to be one of her worst script choices till date, if not the worst.
Leave your brains behind and watch this one. I was caught shaking my head in disbelief on more than one occasion. Like in the scene in which our lead character is operated upon with all his clothes on. Or how he goes upon fixing the entire spacecraft like a born rocket scientist.
The best performance in the film to me was that of Michael Sheen. And my biggest take-away from this film is the beautiful, inspiring quote, "You can't get so hung up on where you'd rather be, that you forget to make the most of where you are."
My verdict: 1 out of 5. It's too illogical, cliched and dumb. For the passengers come out of hibernation mode, only to put the audiences to sleep!
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