Passengers

Passengers

Rating 6 out of 10

This was one of the Christmas movies I was really looking forward to seeing hoping to add it to my Top Ten list in a couple weeks.  Sadly it is a good movie (mostly because of the actors) but not a great one.

If you have been near a tv or talk show in the past several months you know that Passengers is about a time in the future when earth is getting way overpopulated and people are paying hefty prices to travel to far distant planets to live.   The planets are so far away everyone included the crew has to be put to sleep for 120 years to be awaken in time to start their life in the new world.  Only problem is due to a malfunction in the ship Jim (Chris Pratt) wakes up ninety years too early.   Soon after Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence) wakes up.  They together try to fix a plan to solve their sleeping problem and also fall in love as two good looking young people will do.  Ultimately the problem that caused the original malfunction comes to a head and Jim and Aurora need to find a way to save everyone.

Visually the movie is top notch.  The huge space ship really is amazing.  Where the movie lost points for me is it is mostly slow.  Jim trying to cope with being alone then them as a couple living alone on a big ship.  The many trailers and commercials on this movie show most of the plot and pretty much all the good parts.  The story is a little predictable too.  Not long in you can guess what the outcome is going to be.

The two stars make the movie entertaining.  It's good enough rainy day movie or maybe a rental.  I was hoping for better.