REVIEW

Jolting awake from his porcelain white hibernation pod, Chris Pratt, also known as Jim Preston, discerns he’s marooned upon a revolving coil of-a-spaceship – for 90 years. Joining him is Jennifer Lawrence, also known as Aurora. Correspondingly petrified and alone, an innocent romance blossoms. But according to the critic consensus on Rotten Tomatoes, “Passengers proves Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence work well together – and that even their chemistry isn’t enough to overcome a fatally flawed story” (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/passengers_2016/).

With a 31% rating on Rotten Tomatoes’ ‘Tomatometer,’ and an audience score of 68%, it’s evident that Director Morten Tyldum’s “sci-fi thriller” won’t become a “sci-fi classic.” According to Owen Gleiberman of Variety, “What’s lackluster about Passengers isn’t just that the movie is short on surprise, but that it’s like a castaway love story set in the world’s largest, emptiest shopping mall in space.” As a romantic drama, released on December 21^st, 2016, Passengers certainly performs sufficiently in the “ingenuity department” of movie-making, however “with a $30 million six-day debut that looks like a $100-$105 million domestic total [in North America, this movie] didn’t exactly barrel out of the gate” (http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/01/16/jennifer-lawrence-and-chris-pratts-passengers-just-became-2016s-biggest-live-action-original-hit/#21ef17486652). Passengers, a 1 hour and 56 minute Science Fiction film rated PG-13, unfortunately accumulated an average approval rating of 5/10 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passengers_(2016_film)).

I recently watched Passengers at the Sundial Muvico Cinema on January 15^th. Unfortunately, I was not impressed. Although I love Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, the dialogue written for this film, I feel, was its major downfall. Cliché and rudimentary strips of conversation made most of what was happening far-fetched and exaggerated, and I was definitely disappointed.