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She does, and this was the point in the film when I felt compelled to look at my watch, and I was shocked to see we were only an hour into this 116-minute opus.ĭespite their individual charms as performers, Pratt and Lawrence have very questionable chemistry. The cliché-laden script-during one conversation with Aurora, Jim says “Can’t slogans be true?” which I reckon must be something screenwriter Jon Spaihts has asked in his own actual life-demands, of course, that Aurora learn of Jim’s deception.

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The movie has a remarkably lumbering pace.

This movie is directed by Morten Tyldum, who made 2014’s prestige picture “ The Imitation Game,” and its direction is even more dutiful and personality-free than that of the Alan Turing biopic. But then again, the movie is always a little coy where it’s customary to be a little coy, just as it hits the most predictable beats while hammering its way to a conclusion that’s as egregiously contrived and corny as it is predictable.

As Humbert Humbert once noted of a protégé of his, “you see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.” Nevertheless, the movie is a little coy about developing their romance. He makes it look like an accident, he commiserates with her as she freaks out, and he cultivates their friendship. He learns about her-her name is Aurora Lane, she’s a writer, nobody in her life has ever noticed that her name sounds like that of a thoroughfare-dreams about her, and eventually makes a very ill-advised decision. (Or, rather, Pratt is fitted with a very unconvincing beard, full Kurt Russell in “The Thing,” and it doesn’t suit the actor, at all.) And then he develops a crush on another sleeper, one who looks just like Jennifer Lawrence, and is played, appropriately enough, by Jennifer Lawrence. But Jim, an engineer, is not particularly bookish-had his character been more like that of Burgess Meredith in that “Twilight Zone” episode about the last man on Earth and a library, we would not have a movie here-so he runs out of high-tech things to amuse himself with over the course of a year. He does have one friend on the ship, an android bartender, Arthur, played by Michael Sheen.