To begin with, the film seems quite interesting if you can forgive the 'nods' (nods?! More like gaping rip offs) to 2001: Space Odyssey and The Shining bar. It started off well and around the middle when Aurora learns of Jims secret, things seem to pick up and feel tense. But after this, it becomes something more that resembles Titanic in Space and the turns into a vomit inducing love story that leaves all shred of science and beliavility at the door. It started well, but by the end I was bored and didn't feel satisfied at all. Especially with everything that had happened prior to the 'Titanic' scenario, the ending just feels like a unicorns magic dust fart in the face of the audience.The cinematography is beautiful. The acting superb. But the story in itself, starts off promising and then just collapses into too many deux ex machina in too short a time, with an ending that just made me physically feel sick from how corny amd deflating it was.

I loved this movie up until the point that the Jennifer Lawrence character was awakened - which is a bit unexpected, as I usually find Lawrence attractive and talented. But as long as Chris Pratt was by himself, I found an hilarious comic sci-fi scenario - where he's trapped in an environment which couldn't be happening, because the software designers didn't anticipate it, and they know everything, right? I see myself dealing with this all the time.

The trailer for this film tells us that a man and a woman have been woken from suspended animation 30 years into a 120-year journey to a colony planet. With no prospect of returning to deep sleep, they appear to be doomed to spend the rest of their lives together (apart from a robot bartender). But maybe they will fall in love. And maybe they were woken for a reason... ...and the trailer is perfectly fair as far as it goes. But this film does something I love: it introduces something in its early stages which isn't in the trailer, and I can't say what because that really would be a spoiler. Suffice it to say that it is a major unforeseen - though not unforeseeable - influence on the dramatic dynamics of the story, and I loved it, even though I felt that it wasn't fully developed within the confines of the movie.It is fair to say that the hints in the trailer all develop during the movie, some as expected, some not, and they do so satisfyingly. Lawrence and Pratt are both very good, as are the underused Laurence Fishburne and Michael Sheen in a prize of a part as robot barman Arthur, programmed with a small amount of artificial intelligence, a slick line in bartender smalltalk, and a lamentable absence of discretion. I can imagine him jumping for joy when the script arrived.The special effects are excellent and the "hardware" side of the movie is good, with the spaceship itself well designed, both outside and - especially - within: the sets are hugely impressive. Science purists will be a little irritated to discover that the ship has a "Gravity on/off" switch, but this does result in one of the film's most effective action set pieces.But this is essentially a dramatic two-hander, and works very well as such for the most part, although I did find the ending to be a bit of an easy option in order to provide the audience with a happy ending which I didn't believe for a second, for a variety of reasons.Should I mention that Jennifer Lawrence in a swimming costume adds what was, for me, a further reason for seeing the film? I think I should.

(Please note that this review might contain spoilers).If you have enjoyed the historic sci-fi movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, then you'll probably fall in love with Passengers (2016). There is a lot of choices for all sorts of professionals working in movie making, the novelist chooses what details he uses to build the story, the director selects the ways he sees fit to lead the actors, ..etc.; and in this movie it seems to me that all professionals have made the excellent choices. The story of Passengers (2016) is extremely balanced. For those who criticize some role that appeared and disappeared without reason, I want them to imagine how boring and complicated the story will be if extra characters were emotionally involved, or how strange it'll be for a major incident to affect only one person. The selection of how events went by, has made the story to bring heavy-weight ideas, about human emotional and reasonable behavior, how a crisis may affect reason and how reason changes a crisis. The story is a nicely ordered hard-core sci-fi, means the science facts were fully respected during all parts (not like other over-rated ridiculous sci-fi movies such as Arrival). Visuals are extraordinarily beautiful, alongside a very precise and professional directing. The start of the movie is pretty powerful, as the end is. Passengers is a great movie, and deserves general rating of 9 at least. 10/10 without a moment pause.