A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.

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Film Cast:

• Jim Preston: Chris Pratt
• Aurora Lane: Jennifer Lawrence
• Arthur: Michael Sheen
• Gus Mancuso: Laurence Fishburne
• Captain Norris: Andy García
• Celeste: Aurora Perrineau
• Aurora’s Friend: Kristin Brock
• Instructor (Hologram): Julee Cerda
• Observatory (voice): Fred Melamed
• Video Game (voice): Matt Corboy
• The Starship Avalon (voice): Emma Clarke
• Autodoc (voice): Jon Spaihts
• Executive Officer: Vince Foster
• Communications Officer: Kara Michele Wilder
• Crew Member: Conor Brophy
• Sushi Robot Waitress: Alpha Takahashi
• French Restaurant Robot Waiter: Matthew Wolf
• French Restaurant Robot Waiter: Jean-Michel Richaud
• Dancer: Curtis Grecco
• Dancer: Joy Spears
• Party Friend: Lauren Farmer
• Party Friend: Tom Ferrari
• Party Friend: Emerald Mayne
• Party Friend: Quansae Rutledge
• Party Friend: Desmond Reid
• InfoMat / Deejay (voice): Chris Edgerly
• Hector, the Robot Waiter: Jesus Mendoza
• Jr Officer Fitzgerald (uncredited): Kimberly Battista
• Banker in Pod (uncredited): Inder Kumar
• Passenger (uncredited): Ivana Vitomir
• Passenger (uncredited): Shelby Taylor Mullins
• Passenger (uncredited): Kevin Tan
• TV Host (uncredited): Robert Larriviere
• Wake-up Hologram (uncredited): Nazanin Boniadi
• The Attendant (uncredited): Marie Burke

Film Crew:

• Original Music Composer: Thomas Newman
• Supervising Art Director: David Lazan
• Director of Photography: Rodrigo Prieto
• Casting: Francine Maisler
• Executive Producer: Bruce Berman
• Set Decoration: Gene Serdena
• Second Unit Director: Jack Gill
• Executive Producer: Ben Waisbren
• Music Editor: Bill Bernstein
• Costume Design: Jany Temime
• Producer: Neal H. Moritz
• Editor: Maryann Brandon
• Special Effects Supervisor: Daniel Sudick
• Art Direction: Kevin Constant
• Set Designer: Scott Herbertson
• Executive Producer: Lynwood Spinks
• Hairstylist: Mary L. Mastro
• Stunts: Stephen Boxer
• ADR & Dubbing: R.J. Kizer
• Stunts: Jake Teague
• Producer: Ori Marmur
• Executive Producer: David B. Householter
• Orchestrator: J.A.C. Redford
• Unit Production Manager: Basil Grillo
• Set Designer: Karl J. Martin
• Art Direction: Luke Freeborn
• Director: Morten Tyldum
• Gaffer: Rafael E. Sánchez
• Sound Effects Editor: J.M. Davey
• Location Manager: Chris Baugh
• Digital Compositor: Achal Muchhala
• Executive Producer: Ben Browning
• Foley Mixer: Nerses Gezalyan
• Production Sound Mixer: Whit Norris
• Writer: Jon Spaihts
• Transportation Coordinator: Aaron Skalka
• Producer: Stephen Hamel
• Second Unit Director of Photography: Christopher Duskin
• Stunt Coordinator: Garrett Warren
• Set Designer: Dean Wolcott
• Art Direction: John Collins
• Dialogue Editor: Hugo Weng
• Makeup Department Head: Vivian Baker
• Concept Artist: Daren Dochterman
• Producer: Michael Maher
• Art Direction: Gregory S. Hooper
• Stunts: Brett A. Jones
• Digital Compositor: Nicolas Elsig
• Second Assistant Director: Peter Dress
• Costume Supervisor: James W. Tyson
• Foley Artist: Robin Harlan
• Production Design: Guy Hendrix Dyas
• Assistant Art Director: Paula Loos
• Visual Effects Editor: Mike Fay
• Stunts: Kurt D. Lott
• Key Costumer: Dawn Y. Line
• Makeup Artist: Evelyne Noraz
• Set Designer: Josh Lusby
• Sound Effects Editor: Chris Terhune
• Visual Effects: Brian Adler
• Set Designer: Mark Hitchler
• Script Supervisor: Ana Maria Quintana
• Set Dresser: Mark Kwiatkowski
• Standby Painter: Shea Soutar
• Set Costumer: Melanie Mascioli
• Music Editor: John Finklea
• Assistant Art Director: Gary Warshaw
• Art Direction: Ravi Bansal
• Conceptual Design: Richard K. Buoen
• Leadman: Grant Samson
• Set Designer: Noelle King
• Sound Designer: Lee Gilmore
• Foley: Sarah Monat
• Conceptual Illustrator: Laurent Ben-Mimoun
• Set Designer: Anshuman Prasad
• Set Designer: Randall D. Wilkins
• Executive Visual Effects Producer: Philip Greenlow
• Set Designer: C. Scott Baker
• Set Designer: Robert Andrew Johnson
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Kevin O’Connell
• ADR Editor: Susan Dudeck
• Extras Casting: Rose Locke
• Stand In: Tyler Lee Allen
• Stunts: Trevor Habberstad
• Set Designer: Bria Kinter
• Executive Visual Effects Producer: Marianne Speight
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Will Files
• Additional First Assistant Camera: Tyler Harrison
• Executive Visual Effects Producer: Sarah Hemsley
• Costumer: Stacy L. Tyson
• Co-Producer: Greg Baxter
• Foley Artist: Katherine Rose
• Set Designer: Steven M. Saylor
• Camera Operator: Chris Haarhoff
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Erik Nordby
• Best Boy Electric: Scott Sprague
• Construction Coordinator: Robert A. Blackburn
• Sound Designer: Phil Barrie
• Set Costumer: Scott R. Hankins
• Assistant Art Director: Drew Monahan
• Rigging Gaffer: Mike Tyson
• Additional Photography: Michael Diersing
• Property Master: Guillaume DeLouche
• Compositor: Jasdip Sagar
• Visual Effects Production Manager: Tim Pounds-Cornish
• Production Executive: Troy Allen
• Music Editor: Maarten Hofmeijer
• Art Department Production Assistant: Brian Walker
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Pete Dionne
• Props: Jeffrey Lombardi
• Hair Designer: Cydney Cornell
• Assistant Sound Editor: Andrew Bock
• ADR Mixer: Howard London
• Digital Compositor: Ed Hawkins
• Animation Supervisor: Gabriele Zucchelli
• Visual Effects Editor: Mark S. Wright
• Compositing Supervisor: Matthew Kemper
• Storyboard Artist: Collin Grant
• Propmaker: Tim R. Lafferty
• Property Master: Josh Roth
• Stunts: Tony McFarr
• Rigging Gaffer: Scott Graves
• Transportation Captain: Keith D. Fisher
• First Assistant Editor: Kerry Joseph Blackman
• Set Production Assistant: Todd Manes
• Art Direction: Michael H. Ward
• Art Department Coordinator: Sara Ghaffar
• Digital Imaging Technician: Jonny Revolt
• Stand In: Clay Chamberlin
• Stunts: Victor Winters-Junco
• Sound Effects Editor: Joe Iemola
• Unit Production Manager: Karen Ruth Getchell
• Production Coordinator: Brigette Lester
• Production Coordinator: Rachael Lin Gallaghan
• Digital Compositor: Hanuman Patel
• Additional Production Assistant: Jess Shuler
• Sound Mix Technician: Jeremy B. Davis
• First Assistant Camera: Zoran Veselic
• Foley: Christopher Flick
• VFX Editor: Jenna Barratt
• CG Supervisor: Gourdal Sebastien
• Gaffer: Anthony ‘Spike’ Simms
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Alysia Wildman
• Animation: Jessica Ott
• Second Assistant “A” Camera: Matthew Haskins
• Score Engineer: Thomas Vicari
• First Assistant Director: Donald Murphy
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Megan Louise Smith
• ADR Voice Casting: Ashley Lambert
• Second Assistant Accountant: Tamara Henderson
• First Assistant Camera: Alessandro Di Meo
• Set Costumer: Ashley Marie Parker
• Digital Intermediate: Alex Portin
• Epk Camera Operator: Kraig Swisher
• Set Designer: John Moredock
• First Assistant Camera: Adam Castro
• Costumer: Sara Cobbeldick
• Additional Editor: Julian Smirke
• Visual Effects Producer: Tomi Nieminen
• Scenic Artist: Carla Bailey
• Storyboard Artist: Ray Harvie
• Lighting Technician: Joel C. Warren
• Set Designer: Jeffrey D. McDonald
• Production Accountant: Denise Morgan McGrath
• Key Costumer: Yen Do
• Casting Associate: Kate Evans
• Makeup Artist: Gigi Collins
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Emily Pead
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Paul O’Hara
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Lee Maher
• Additional First Assistant Camera: Matthew McGinn
• Graphic Designer: Karen Teneyck
• Conceptual Design: Andy Chung
• Colorist: Stephen Nakamura
• Assistant Art Director: Brittany Hites
• Assistant Costume Designer: Alli Yatto
• Set Costumer: Hilary Smiley
• Camera Operator: Al Pavoni
• CG Supervisor: Audrey Ferrara
• VFX Supervisor: Alex Guri
• Visual Effects Editor: James Mann
• Makeup Artist: Amanda Bianchi
• Costume Illustrator: Greg Hopwood
• Animal Coordinator: Greg Tresan
• Executive Producer: Greg Basser
• Video Assist Operator: David Deever
• Electrician: Tom Novell
• Location Scout: Ryan Schaetzle
• Makeup Artist: Teresa Foshee
• Digital Imaging Technician: Joe Elrom
• Stunts: Renae Moneymaker
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Phoebe Sutherland
• First Assistant Director: James Currier
• Second Assistant Director: Robert S. Hoffman
• Boom Operator: C. Douglas Cameron
• Storyboard Artist: Mark Vena
• Key Grip: Joseph Dianda
• Casting Assistant: Jordana Sapiurka
• Second Assistant “B” Camera: Hugh Braselton
• Grip: Richard Arnold
• Stunts: Garrett Hammond
• Storyboard Artist: Anson Jew
• Assistant Editor: Fred Brown II
• Lighting Technician: David McLendon
• Set Dresser: Chuck McCourt
• Art Direction: Hugh D.G. Moody
• Second Assistant Director: Dawn Massaro
• Set Designer: Patrick Dunn-Baker
• Sound Effects Editor: Justin M. Davey
• Lighting Technician: Greg Etheredge
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Melissa Franco
• Set Dresser: Maxwell Britton
• On Set Dresser: Scott Johnson
• Set Dresser: Blade Ladish
• Boom Operator: Colt Logan
• Assistant Location Manager: Josh Dillard
• Stunts: Spencer Stone
• Dolly Grip: Jim Leidholdt
• Set Designer: Allen Coulter
• Electrician: LeThomas Lee
• Visual Effects Editor: Jack Runyon
• 3D Coordinator: Aaron Reznick
• Rigging Grip: Geoffrey Harper
• Digital Compositor: Sujeen Nepali
• Grip: Joey Gandolfi
• Special Effects Technician: Michael Dye
• Digital Compositor: Michael Harrison
• Dolly Grip: Luis Pagan
• Best Boy Grip: Jason Blaise Cunningham
• Pre-Visualization Supervisor: Duane Floch
• Animation: Ted Lister
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Carlos Ciudad
• Lighting Technician: Jason M. Thompson
• Visual Effects Technical Director: Stefanos Kittakis
• Camera Operator: Tiko Pavoni
• Rigging Grip: Shane Detwiler
• Digital Compositor: Leslie Renaud
• Animation: Luca Cantani
• Special Effects Technician: Pete Kelley
• Visual Effects Production Manager: Nick Thompson
• Visual Effects Production Manager: James Grummitt
• ADR Mixer: Brian Smith
• First Assistant Director: Justin Muller
• Art Department Production Assistant: Lauren Sandoval
• Set Production Assistant: Spencer R. Williams
• Set Dresser: Eitan Sonnenberg
• Costume Assistant: Caitlin ‘Cat’ Booth
• Visual Effects Assistant Editor: Zack Rosenblatt
• Special Effects Technician: Thomas Zell
• Compositor: Gus Djuro
• Set Costumer: Rebecca Russell
• Set Decoration Buyer: Katie Childs
• Concept Artist: Rowan E Cassidy
• Concept Artist: Ivan Khomenko
• Digital Compositor: Chris Gooch
• VFX Artist: Francesco Ricciardelli
• Digital Compositor: Ujwal W Dhankute
• Digital Compositor: Albena Ivanova
• Digital Imaging Technician: Edward Viola
• Compositor: Adam Arnot
• Compositing Lead: Kirstin Hall
• Production Assistant: P.P. Bringas
• Compositing Supervisor: Dave Griffiths
• Stereoscopic Supervisor: Holly Aldersley
• Digital Compositor: Ravi Pareek
• Animation: Puneethpb
• Digital Imaging Technician: Jason Bauer
• Foley Mixer: Jeff Gross
• Production Manager: Sarah Cauchois
• Compositor: Mark Tremble
• Digital Compositor: Adrián Pueyo
• Digital Compositor: Angela Rinaldi
• Digital Compositor: Sribalaji Santharam
• Digital Compositor: Hernan Barros
• Digital Compositor: Mirko Morciano
• Head of Production: Lauren McCallum
• Second Assistant Director: Peter McGrew
• Second Second Assistant Director: Michelle Schrauwers
• Art Department Production Assistant: Beau Tepper
• Art Department Production Assistant: Caris Huffine
• Assistant Property Master: Bonnie Parnell
• Assistant Property Master: Shelby Treichler
• Concept Artist: Igor Knezevic
• Concept Artist: Juan Jesús García
• Conceptual Design: Edon Guraziu
• Construction Foreman: Jeremy Johnson
• Graphic Designer: Kevin Kalaba
• Matte Painter: Nitin S Kale
• Propmaker: Matt Dengel
• Props: Pat Oldknow
• Scenic Artist: Andy Bays
• Scenic Artist: Donald Fulmer
• Scenic Artist: Thibault Tosseram
• Set Decoration Buyer: Charlotte Lee
• Set Dresser: Dana Corbett
• Set Dresser: Patrick S. Johnson
• Additional Music: Sukumar Dutta
• Score Engineer: Shinnosuke Miyazawa
• Special Effects Technician: Jason Tate Brown
• Special Effects Technician: Allison Gainza
• Special Effects Technician: Keith Haynes
• Stunts: Loren Dennis
• Stunts: Keone Kim
• Stunts: Jason Shupe
• Stunts: McLane Snow
• Stunts: Cord Walker
• Additional Grip: Joseph Parker
• Additional Grip: Vincent Gandolfi
• Camera Production Assistant: Charlie Lehmer
• Chief Lighting Technician: Manny Tapia
• Digital Imaging Technician: Nicholas Kay
• Digital Imaging Technician: Stuart Huggins
• Electrician: Don Powell
• Electrician: Jesse Cooper
• Grip: Brandon Cundiff
• Grip: Charles Arnold
• Grip: Douglas Wiltse
• Grip: Jeremy Wisham
• Grip: Josh Cubas
• Grip: Justin Bernhard
• Grip: Ryan Ferguson
• Grip: Nathan M. Schindler
• Lighting Technician: Brad Irvin
• Lighting Technician: Joy Britt
• Lighting Technician: Ryan Ketchum
• Lighting Technician: Ted Nimz
• Rigging Grip: Brian Adkins
• Rigging Grip: Matt Shearer
• Costume Assistant: Amanda Whitfield
• Costume Assistant: Amber Blackman
• Costume Assistant: Jermaine M. Boyd
• 3D Editor: John Ott
• Additional Editor: Dustin Frost
• Additional Production Assistant: Nick Moyer
• Assistant Editor: Woodrow Drake
• Assistant Production Coordinator: Kim Khoo
• Dailies Operator: Hunter Furnish
• Dailies Operator: Nicholas Winkelmann
• Driver: Connie Biles
• Driver: Jeff Hindes
• Driver: Richard C. Ryan
• Driver: Terri Dowtin
• Driver: Wayne Hogan
• Driver: Pamela Hovies-Ivey
• Driver: Chuck Mathews
• Intern: Allison Hartel
• Location Scout: Caroline Nightbird
• Payroll Accountant: David Krudis
• Post Production Assistant: Katherine M. Shafer
• Production Assistant: Bonnie Cook
• Production Assistant: Joe Colavincenzo
• Production Assistant: Kate Maudlin
• Additional Production Assistant: William McClure
• Production Assistant: Evan McMahon
• Production Assistant: Olivia FitzGerald-Harewood
• Production Secretary: Dylan Gravley
• Second Assistant Accountant: Andrew Paulson
• Second Assistant Accountant: Kim Ronstadt
• Second Assistant Accountant: Zion DeBeatham
• Set Production Assistant: Elyse Archie
• Set Production Assistant: Stephanie L. Brown
• Travel Coordinator: Jill Rytie Lutz
• Animation: Alex Hislop
• Animation: Arthur Gil Larsen
• Animation: Ben Krolick
• Animation: Benn Garnish
• Animation: Chandrashekhar Ramprasad
• Animation: Mario Grosu
• Animation: Srikar Balakrishnan
• Animation: Stephen Jolley
• Color Assistant: Cat Rowe
• Compositing Lead: Arnab Sanyal
• Compositing Lead: Jeremy Sawyer
• Compositing Lead: Nicolás Casanova
• Compositing Lead: Suzanne Jandu
• Compositing Supervisor: Aleksei Chernogorod
• Compositor: Daniela Cabrera
• Compositor: Jayson Davis
• Compositor: Kenneth Dietrich
• Compositor: Richard Baillie
• Compositor: Sarah Foff
• Compositor: Shilpesh Mane
• Compositor: Shomnath Dhar
• Compositor: Shyamchand
• Compositor: Sivakumar Arunachalam
• Compositor: Sivaprakash Jeevanantham
• Compositor: Sriram Rajaram
• Compositor: Stevenson Thomas
• Compositor: Sudeepto Bose
• Compositor: Vamshi Ramasagaram
• Compositor: Vinayaga Sundar
• Digital Compositor: Benjamin Jean
• Digital Compositor: Bhaskarachari Komaragiri
• Digital Compositor: Dustin White
• Digital Compositor: Eion-Ray Patterson
• Digital Compositor: Francesc Macia
• Digital Compositor: Ian Murphy
• Digital Compositor: Jack Dunn
• Digital Compositor: Jenne Sreekanth Naidu
• Digital Compositor: Joydip Sen
• Digital Compositor: Judith Ferrer
• Digital Compositor: Kapil More
• Digital Compositor: Karthik Ramasamy
• Digital Compositor: M.S.M. Mirzhaa
• Digital Compositor: Marta Gargano
• Digital Compositor: Olivier Jezequel
• Digital Compositor: Pradeep Gownipuram
• Digital Compositor: Preetam Saha
• Digital Compositor: Rajesh Ravi
• Digital Compositor: Satheesh Rangasamy
• Digital Compositor: Saurabh Tripathi
• Digital Compositor: Shripad Deshmukh
• Digital Compositor: Stephanie Cooper
• Digital Compositor: Steven O’Connor
• Digital Compositor: Sudheesh Kattil
• Digital Compositor: Sudheesh Kk
• Digital Compositor: Sumit Chatterjee
• Digital Compositor: Tom Coster
• Digital Compositor: Vignesh Govindaraj
• Digital Compositor: Vivek Mohan
• Digital Compositor: Nathan Remy
• Lead Animator: Santiago Colomo
• Lighting Artist: Anurag Deshmukh
• Matchmove Supervisor: Kukal Prasanth
• Matte Painter: Jacek Pilarski
• Production Coordinator: Daniel A. Judah
• Production Coordinator: Shelby Bronstine
• Production Manager: Allison Smith-Murphy
• Production Manager: Anna Joel Wilson
• Production Manager: Christy Williams
• Senior Modeller: Thirupathi Nomula
• VFX Artist: Aleksandar Horak
• VFX Artist: Amir Qureshi
• VFX Artist: Ayushi Chaudhary
• VFX Artist: Cenay Oekmen
• VFX Artist: Edward Ferrysienanda
• VFX Artist: Forbes Hill
• VFX Artist: Kapil Dev Anand
• VFX Artist: Rahul Sinha
• VFX Artist: Rajeev K.J.
• VFX Artist: Vikramshil Narwade
• VFX Editor: Trushna Patel
• Visual Effects Producer: Sam Spacey
• Visual Effects: Alok Ogale
• Visual Effects: Gopi Krishnan
• Visual Effects: Ivan Castane Capel
• Visual Effects: Jacob Yorke
• Visual Effects: Maya De Rivia
• Visual Effects: Shih Ling Huang
• Visual Effects: Wakeel Ahmad
• Visual Effects: William Colaluca
• Visual Effects Assistant Editor: Anthony Bompensiero
• Visual Effects Assistant Editor: Brian Tong
• Visual Effects Assistant Editor: Eva Zemaitis
• Visual Effects Assistant Editor: Stedman Tam
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Abigail Everard
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Albert Vilardaga
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Ashlee Sutherland
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Eavan Ryan
• Visual Effects Coordinator: George Kolyras
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Helen McAvoy-James
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Mouni Kompally
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Nadia Volodina
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Pranoy Roy Chowdhury
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Rosanna Morley
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Roshni Suresh
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Sade Okunade
• Visual Effects Coordinator: See Hazel
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Srinivas Janapati
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Vishal Rustgi
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Will Newis
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Jose Armengol
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Denise Seth Nicole
• Visual Effects Producer: Jesse Morrow
• Visual Effects Producer: Ranjeet Singh
• Visual Effects Production Assistant: Freddie Bowden
• Visual Effects Production Assistant: Jacqlene Boening
• Visual Effects Production Assistant: Keta Wilson
• Visual Effects Production Assistant: Marta Matuszewska
• Visual Effects Production Manager: Nancy Xu
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Kenneth Nelson
• Visual Effects Technical Director: Andrés Gómez Tollar
• Visual Effects Technical Director: Chema del Fresno
• Visual Effects Technical Director: Christopher Dunham
• Visual Effects Technical Director: Etienne Devillée
• Visual Effects Technical Director: Jaclyn Stauber
• Visual Effects Technical Director: Koen Hofmeester
• Visual Effects Technical Director: Ng Cheuk-Yung Jayde
• Visual Effects Technical Director: Sebastian van Hesteren
• Visual Effects Technical Director: Ville-Matti Vasama
• Visual Effects Technical Director: Xavier Martin
• Second Assistant Camera: John Metcalfe

Movie Reviews:

• CharlesTheBold: A science-fiction movie that has dazzling scenery but also goes into some disturbing territory. Two people (Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt) are stranded on a malfunctioning starship over which they have little control. At first they can divert themselves with all the material wealth at their disposal. But when one commits a crime against the other, there is no society and no judicial system that can handle the offense. How can they work it out the ethics of punishment, penance, and rehabilitation between them?

  The movie is marred by some scenes that look impressive but aren’t scientifically accurate, particularly where gravity is concerned. Probably added by studio suits who wanted to wow the audience but didn’t understand or care about the underlying science. But that’s par for the course for most science fiction movies.

• Reno: **A space-travel tale!**

  I was going to watch it, but not expecting it to be a masterpiece. It was not, yet surprised to be a lot better film when it comes to todays film overcrowded with space themes. The entire story takes place on a spaceship. It’s a space journey tale, when the mankind with 5,000 on-board heading for a new home planet, but one of them unexpectedly wakes up from his hibernation pod. It’s supposed to wake him and everybody a few months before their destination, so now he’s up nearly a century early, and what he plans to do is what the adventures covered in the rest of the film.

  There’s no connection to the 2008 film of the same name. Initially I thought it was like a live-action version of ‘Wall-E’. Not entirely, only a few scenes and the main two characters remind Wall-E and Eva. It is also a limited cast film and I loved the simple screenplay, but strong enough to be one of the best in its kind. The actors were very good. The visuals were beautiful, a perfect film for the late night to watch alone peacefully.

  From the Norwegian director of ‘Headhunters’ fame. This is not his Hollywood debut, but previously he had got an Oscar nomination for the film ‘The Imitation Game’. The concept was like ‘The Blue Lagoon’ or kind of the space version of the Eden Garden tale. I had predicted a few scenes, those were too simple to do that. The real big thing came in the later part, especially when all the focus shifts to more than the initial narration. Scientifically, not everything believable, but cinematically, anything can be possible. So with a such concept, the film headed to the conclusion where a twist came into play. Entertainment is guaranteed. One of the year’s best that should not be missed. Recommended!

  8/10

• John Chard: Crusoe and Girl Friday.

  Pretty much reviled by professional critics, Passengers has overcome that to hold affection with a good portion of the sci-fi loving public. More safe sci-fi footings than anything remotely ground breaking, it ends up a a tidy romantic piece that’s laced with pertinent questions involving man and his/her reactions to extraordinary scenario’s.

  Although the viewer is for the most part hankering for action to explode off the screen, it’s only when – in the film’s last quarter – you realise that it was actually working fine as a character study without the fireworks.

  Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence have bunches of charisma, in fact more than enough to carry the story through its more shaky elements. They in turn are aided by Michael Sheen who is perfectly cast as the Android (not Robot!) bartender Arthur.

  The effects work is impressive and director Morten Tyldum stitches the set pieces together admirably, the highlight being a rather superb gravity loss sequence. While the sound mix is also to be applauded.

  Newcomers should expect a Robinson Crusoe love story in space as opposed to a sci-fi actioner, though one with more cerebral strains than at first hinted, because then the pic delivers a good time and adds to what is turning out to be a rather great decade for sci-fi fans. 7/10