Review: Passengers Is An Exercise In Failed Execution.
- Mar 20, 2017
- 1 min read
The Avalon is on a 120 year journey from Earth to a new colony planet. When Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) is woken from hypersleep 90 years early, he becomes the sole conscious human being aboard, alone with only his thoughts and plans. Before long he wakes Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence) and thus begins a crappy romance that bogs down what was an otherwise interesting science fiction movie.
The first half hour of Passengers is great. Chris Pratt wanders around an empty spaceship, trying to sole his problems, talking with the various robots aboard and genuinely being entertaining. It's hinted that something is wrong with The Avalon but before Jim gets the opportunity to experience them for himself he makes a stupid, stupid decision. He wakes up Jennifer Lawrence and thus the plot comes screeching to a halt and all good will the film built was lost.
Outside of the first half hour, Passengers has one other thing going for it. It's a pretty good looking movie. The Avalon has a unique design and while many of the concepts presented, hypersleep, food dispensers and spacesuits, are barely original, the look of everything is clean and sharp, almost like it was designed by Apple.
Passengers is a mostly forgettable movie. It was interesting, exciting and would have made for a good movie if it carried the first half hour throughout the rest of the film. Instead it's followed by one and a half hours of droll romance, plot breaking situation and generic science fiction. You won't remember Passengers by the time you finish watching. Save yourself the trouble and find something even slightly enjoyable.
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