Actors: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris
Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, Andy García.
Rating: 9 out of 10, I know it’s
getting skewered by the critics but this was sci fi done very well because the
people were the important focus and not just the technology. If there was any
doubt (none here) about Jennifer Lawrence’s screen presence this movie should
eradicate it. Chris Pratt is very serviceable and likable for the first part of
the movie but Lawrence dominates when she appears. They play two passengers who
should be in cryosleep for a 120 year voyage to a new planet. Pratt is awakened
early when the ship blunders into a very large asteroid which leads to a
maddeningly slow failure of the ship. Alone for over a year Pratt does what any
young man would do, he wakes the hottest fellow passenger he can find. While I
treat that issue glibly the movie does not which brings up the interesting
moral questions of the dilemma. While the movie does stumble to the finish line
it was uniformly entertaining, so blow off the critics and go see it.
MVP: Lawrence as Aurora – sexy,
intelligent, and warm
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