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

Stephen Hamel

Michael Maher

Ori Marmur

Neal H. Moritz

Maryann Brandon

Francine Maisler

Guy Hendrix Dyas

Pete Dionne

R.J. Kizer

Sarah Monat

Christopher Flick

Phil Barrie

Lee Gilmore

J.M. Davey

Chris Terhune

Will Files

Kevin O'Connell

Cydney Cornell

Mary L. Mastro

Vivian Baker

Evelyne Noraz

Gigi Collins

Amanda Bianchi

Alex Portin

Kerry Joseph Blackman

John Collins

Luke Freeborn

Kevin Constant

Gregory S. Hooper

Michael H. Ward

Gene Serdena

Jany Temime

Sara Ghaffar

Brittany Hites

Paula Loos

Gary Warshaw

Robert A. Blackburn

Kate Evans

Bill Bernstein

John Finklea

Maarten Hofmeijer

Ana Maria Quintana

Alli Yatto

James W. Tyson

Scott R. Hankins

Melanie Mascioli

Ashley Marie Parker

Hilary Smiley

Al Pavoni

Zoran Veselić

Alessandro Di Meo

Rafael E. Sánchez

Scott Graves

Mike Tyson

Gabriele Zucchelli

Gourdal Sebastien

Audrey Ferrara

Daniel Sudick

Alex Guri

Mike Fay

James Mann

Greg Baxter

Erik Nordby

Greg Basser

Bruce Berman

Ben Browning

David B. Householter

Lynwood Spinks

Ben Waisbren

Thomas Newman

Spencer Stone

Fenilconic

Randall D. Wilkins

Aaron Reznick

Alex Hislop

Arthur Gil Larsen

Ben Krolick

Benn Garnish

Chandrashekhar Ramprasad

Jessica Ott

Luca Cantani

Mario Grosu

Puneethpb

Srikar Balakrishnan

Stephen Jolley

Ted Lister

Ravi Bansal

Cat Rowe

Arnab Sanyal

Jeremy Sawyer

Kirstin Hall

Nicolás Casanova

Drama

Romance

Science Fiction

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

cliché

sceptical

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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