Jennifer Lawrence

Chris Pratt

Michael Sheen

Laurence Fishburne

Andy García

Vince Foster

Kara Flowers

Conor Brophy

Julee Cerda

Aurora Perrineau

Lauren Farmer

Emerald Mayne

Kristin Brock

Tom Ferrari

Quansae Rutledge

Desmond Reid

Emma Clarke

Chris Edgerly

Fred Melamed

Matt Corboy

Jesus Mendoza

Alpha Takahashi

Matthew Wolf

Jean-Michel Richaud

Jon Spaihts

Curtis Grecco

Joy Spears

Steph Allen

Kimberly Battista

Nazanin Boniadi

Marie Burke

Lindsey Elizabeth

Ana Gray

Kenneth Jones

Inder Kumar

Stephen M. LaBar Jr.

Ashley Lambert

Robert Larriviere

Shelby Taylor Mullins

Jeff Olsen

Kelli Pardo

Kayla Jenee Radomski

Jamie Soricelli

Ivana Vitomir

John Metcalfe

Morten Tyldum

Rodrigo Prieto

Neal H. Moritz

Stephen Hamel

Michael Maher

Ori Marmur

Maryann Brandon

Guy Hendrix Dyas

Francine Maisler

Pete Dionne

Will Files

Vivian Baker

Amanda Bianchi

Lee Gilmore

Evelyne Noraz

Cydney Cornell

Phil Barrie

Chris Terhune

Kerry Joseph Blackman

J.M. Davey

Gigi Collins

R.J. Kizer

Christopher Flick

Kevin O'Connell

Mary L. Mastro

Sarah Monat

Alex Portin

Rafael E. Sánchez

Gourdal Sebastien

Michael H. Ward

Ashley Marie Parker

Gregory S. Hooper

Sara Ghaffar

Kevin Constant

Jany Temime

Zoran Veselić

Paula Loos

Kate Evans

Maarten Hofmeijer

Hilary Smiley

Gary Warshaw

Scott R. Hankins

Mike Fay

Greg Baxter

John Collins

Bill Bernstein

Gene Serdena

Melanie Mascioli

Alli Yatto

Alessandro Di Meo

Mike Tyson

Luke Freeborn

Robert A. Blackburn

James W. Tyson

Scott Graves

Gabriele Zucchelli

Brittany Hites

Al Pavoni

Alex Guri

James Mann

Audrey Ferrara

John Finklea

Ana Maria Quintana

Erik Nordby

Daniel Sudick

Greg Basser

David B. Householter

Ben Waisbren

Bruce Berman

Ben Browning

Lynwood Spinks

Thomas Newman

Spencer Stone

Fenilconic

Randall D. Wilkins

Aaron Reznick

Suzanne Jandu

Gus Djuro

Shomnath Dhar

Arnab Sanyal

Aleksei Chernogorod

Kirstin Hall

Nicolás Casanova

Shyamchand

Jasdip Sagar

Achal Muchhala

Puneethpb

Srikar Balakrishnan

Ravi Bansal

Dave Griffiths

Arthur Gil Larsen

Ben Krolick

Stephen Jolley

Cat Rowe

Drama

Romance

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Passengers

Wanda Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Village Roadshow Pictures

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Company Films

Start Motion Pictures

LStar Capital

United States of America

English

android

spacecraft

asteroid

isolation

shower

hibernation

swimming pool

automation

space

robot

space station

lying

gravity

trapped in space

malfunction

proprietary

fusion reactor

A science-fiction movie that has dazzling scenery but also goes into some disturbing territory.  Two people (Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt)  are stranded on a malfunctioning starship over which they have little control.  At first they can divert themselves with all the material wealth at their disposal.  But when one commits a crime against the other, there is no society and no judicial system that can handle the offense.  How can they work it out the ethics of punishment, penance, and rehabilitation between them?

The movie is marred by some scenes that look impressive but aren't scientifically accurate, particularly where gravity is concerned.  Probably added by studio suits who wanted to wow the audience but didn't understand or care about the underlying science.  But that's par for the course for most science fiction movies.

Reno

**A space-travel tale!**

I was going to watch it, but not expecting it to be a masterpiece. It was not, yet surprised to be a lot better film when it comes to todays film overcrowded with space themes. The entire story takes place on a spaceship. It's a space journey tale, when the mankind with 5,000 on-board heading for a new home planet, but one of them unexpectedly wakes up from his hibernation pod. It's supposed to wake him and everybody a few months before their destination, so now he's up nearly a century early, and what he plans to do is what the adventures covered in the rest of the film.

There's no connection to the 2008 film of the same name. Initially I thought it was like a live-action version of 'Wall-E'. Not entirely, only a few scenes and the main two characters remind Wall-E and Eva. It is also a limited cast film and I loved the simple screenplay, but strong enough to be one of the best in its kind. The actors were very good. The visuals were beautiful, a perfect film for the late night to watch alone peacefully.

From the Norwegian director of 'Headhunters' fame. This is not his Hollywood debut, but previously he had got an Oscar nomination for the film 'The Imitation Game'. The concept was like 'The Blue Lagoon' or kind of the space version of the Eden Garden tale. I had predicted a few scenes, those were too simple to do that. The real big thing came in the later part, especially when all the focus shifts to more than the initial narration. Scientifically, not everything believable, but cinematically, anything can be possible. So with a such concept, the film headed to the conclusion where a twist came into play. Entertainment is guaranteed. One of the year's best that should not be missed. Recommended!

8/10

Crusoe and Girl Friday.

Pretty much reviled by professional critics, Passengers has overcome that to hold affection with a good portion of the sci-fi loving public. More safe sci-fi footings than anything remotely ground breaking, it ends up a a tidy romantic piece that's laced with pertinent questions involving man and his/her reactions to extraordinary scenario's.

Although the viewer is for the most part hankering for action to explode off the screen, it's only when - in the film's last quarter - you realise that it was actually working fine as a character study without the fireworks.

Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence have bunches of charisma, in fact more than enough to carry the story through its more shaky elements. They in turn are aided by Michael Sheen who is perfectly cast as the Android (not Robot!) bartender Arthur.

The effects work is impressive and director Morten Tyldum stitches the set pieces together admirably, the highlight being a rather superb gravity loss sequence. While the sound mix is also to be applauded.

Newcomers should expect a Robinson Crusoe love story in space as opposed to a sci-fi actioner, though one with more cerebral strains than at first hinted, because then the pic delivers a good time and adds to what is turning out to be a rather great decade for sci-fi fans. 7/10

Passengers( 2016)

There is a reason they woke up.

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A review by CharlesTheBold

Written by CharlesTheBold on Tue Mar 07 2017

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