![]() Out exactly the way Pratt’s character intended. Relationship between Pratt and Lawrence is too easy. Lonely traveler chooses to awaken the female passenger. That’s a complex question that makes for an interesting tension.įilmmakers fail their premise. Pratt’sĬharacter then debates whether or not he ought to wake her up and have aĬompanion but thereby doom this woman to live out her life on the He then discovers a sleeping female passenger, playedīy Jennifer Lawrence, who he thinks he would be happy with. Realizing that he is ninety years from his destination, Pratt’sĬharacter faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life alone Pratt, awakens alone on a massive ship and is unable to get back to The story of Passengersīegins in a compelling way. Isolation of the characters’ predicament. Nothing here is above the bar set by movies like Gravityīut it does have some great looking star fields and it uses theĬoldness and emptiness of space to reinforce the loneliness and Passengers also has some impressive visual effects. People have abandoned Earth because of planet-wide gentrification butĪre financially exploited in their search for a new life. To the economic background of the story in which middle and lower class Respect, Passengers also includes some interesting ideas about The kinds of frustrations inherent to automated services. Includes clever details in the mechanization the filmmakers visualize Spacecraft, a sort of luxury cruise in outer space, and the artĭirection mixes practicality with elegant design. The movie takes place aboard a commercial One of the passengers (Chris Pratt) is reanimated and cannot get back Instead, "Passengers" is just a bad, rape-y space movie about one woman's Stockholm Syndrome and the man who ruined her life because he didn't want to be alone.In which a spacecraft carries thousands of people in cryogenic sleep toĪ colony on a distant planet. The ending implies that they continued their relationship and even had children together.Įven if they had fixed this central plot disaster, it doesn't change a slew of other issues people had with the movie - including, but not limited to, why the suspended animation pods only work once and why the ship wasn't prepared for asteroids - but it certainly could've made it more watchable.īut a psychological thriller is not what the movie studio thought people wanted. ![]() Instead of this thriller angle, the real movie follows Jim's plot to wake Aurora up from the get-go, and when she realizes what he did to her, she's only temporarily angry with him. Perhaps in this story, the other passengers would have awoken to Aurora's book about her experience vanquishing Jim and her time alone aboard the Avalon, protecting the 5,000 other passengers as they hurtle through space. The film then could have ventured into the territory of tales like "Misery" or "10 Cloverfield Lane" where Aurora not only must escape her increasingly unhinged captor, but try to save the ship - and humanity - in the process. ![]() In addition to realizing the ship is broken, she comes to the conclusion that she was never meant to wake up - Jim opened her pod on purpose and then lied to her. Jim brushes it off, but Aurora, ever the writer, wants to learn what happened and why they're awake. This is when "Passengers" could have switched from being a love story to a full-on psychological space thriller, and it would have made it so much better.Īurora could have slowly realized over the course of the first act that there are signs someone else has been awake before them on the spaceship. They become a couple - but Aurora starts to realize that something's not quite right. Together, they discover the amenities and feel a shared grief that they won't make it to the planet. ![]() Picture this: Instead of focusing on Jim as the hero, the movie opens with both Jim and Aurora seemingly waking up at the same time. Jaimie Trueblood/Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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