Chinese sci-fi, action film. The sun is dying in the next 100 years so humans finally put petty fights behind them and form a unified earth government to develop and build 10,000 earth engines. These will de-orbit the earth so it can travel for 2500 years to a new Alpha Centauri. Along they way, they will need to use Jupiter as a gravity slingshot. The story follows one of the project engineers (stationed on the lead spacecraft) and his family (still back on earth) and throws several engineering failures at the humans and we watch how problems are solved. In this, I love how the story arc and dramatic tension are science/engineering failures and solutions. It is too bad that these are more fiction than science. I would say that the most fun thing about the film was the driving scenes with the cargo transporters on the surface.
3 stars (out of 5)
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