Warning - This review contains some spoilers ⚠️
Set in the near future, passenger Jim, along with 4.999 other passengers travel to start a new life on a planet over 100 years away. Having travelled for 30 years, Jim's sleeping pod malfunctions and he wakes up 90 years too early. Since the passengers, including Jim, were only suppose to wake up a few months before landing, he now finds himself alone, in the middle of space, with nobody to talk to other than an android.
After spending a year alone, Jim wants to talk to someone who isn't non-human. Having watched videos about the journalist named Aurora, he decides to find her pod, make her live with him and his fate and wakes her. They both fall for each other and it soon turns from a Sci-fi to a Rom-com. I'll be honest, it felt like this movie went on for 30 years! The whole plot line literally started an hour into the movie.
The concept is quite cool and the graphics were great. It wouldn't surprise me if our lives will come to that one day - travelling from Earth to a planet years (or light-years) away, sleeping in Pods and being woken up hundreds of years later. After all, NASA did just announce they found seven planets 40 light-years away *mind-blown*.
(Side note: Does it also not blow your mind that Space never ends. You'd think there has to be an ending, right? But there never can be...)
It reminded me of The Martian a little and, at times, your heart broke for lonely Jim. Of course, the android spilled Jim’s big secret and that (shockingly) puts a halt to their romance (but not for long). They soon worked together to try and get back to sleep and fix what had gone wrong, including their romance.
So did he regret waking her up? Do they get back to sleep or do they just give up? You would really have to watch it yourself. Would I recommend it though? If you have hours to waste then yeah, why not. If you want an action-packed movie, stay clear.
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