This went off the rails pretty quickly. Definitely written as if someone with no knowledge of any sciences outside of what they see on TV was trying to plan an essential mission to another planet - so, it's a mess. A lot of it doesn't make sense, but I get told to just pretend it away, so I tried that...
And it's still a nonsensical mess made up of a bunch of (apparently) the world's most sociopathic teenagers, most of whom have no sense of self-preservation whatsoever, and a couple of Spock types who sort-of-kind-of try a little bit. But they still act like they didn't spend their entire existence training for EXACTLY THIS.
None of these kids has any desire to live past tomorrow? You're going to try to convince me that the majority of humans' honest natures are irreparably evil and excited to die (because we don't come pre-programmed with the innate desire to procreate and continue surviving in their reality)? Even the imagery used as now-adult kids are experiencing emotions for the first time feels hollow, like a failed attempt at mimicry. A bad impression of emotion and sensation. Someone making this movie had a deep misconception of sociology and psychology, along with physics and astronomy.
I can ignore some annoying science misconceptions, but the idea that the majority of humans are, in their truest selves, absolutely selfish, self-centered, ignorant, lust-driven, murderous, and purely evil gets ridiculously extreme. I could get behind a little stupidity, but this much of it is just chaotic to the point that it's boring. Like watching a room full of nap-less toddlers play Space Force.
Just be ready for everything to go downhill as soon as Colin Farrell's character is gone. Somehow the person who spends the smallest portion of their life on this mission is the one with the most character development. His character is the only one that's easy to identify with, although Lily Rose Depp is a slightly robotic close second. At least that's who her character is supposed to be.
Fionn Whitehead isn't very exciting in his antagonist role. He feels like a 13-year-old trying to play sociopath, like he may not have studied this role and instead chose just to do Manson-eyes at the camera really badly. He's a terrible villain.
All in all, the only person associated with this movie that I could believe is a sociopath is the writer. And maybe whoever else is in charge that made the decision that this would either make sense or be a good movie.
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