Passengers - Futuristic 'Titanic' set in Space

Rating: 8/10 (22 December 2016)

The plot follows the spaceship 'Avalon' travelling through deep space to colonise another world called Homestead2. This ship is only 30 years into its 120 year journey when a large meteorite strikes and causes a malfunction to one of its hibernation pods, the pod opens prematurely and 'wakes' Jim Preston (Chris Pratt). Jim explores the ship and realises he's isolated, his only companion appears to be a warm and delightful bar-tender droid 'Arthur' (Martin Sheen) – he realises that he's still 90 years from the destination and that he'll be dead by the time the ship reaches Homestead2.
He can only be alone for so long, until he ultimately desires another human companion. Jim finds and reads Aurora Lane's (Jennifer Lawrence) profile and falls in love.
Now Jim's has a moral dilemma, whether to wake her up. Well  he wakes her up, they fall in love and he decides to keep his decision to wake a secret from her.
The ship suffers some more malfunctions, there are some occasional power outages, gravity fails, droid malfunctions and the revival of another crew member (Lawrence Fishburne). They all realise there's something more serious happening to the ship that they will need to fix urgently.
The ship completes the journey and we see that the two main characters (who we grow to care about) have together created a Garden of Eden. We don't see them again but we know that they've grown old and have both died of old age. We knew that was always to be their final fate.
I liked the very minimal feeling, even though there were 5000 passengers and 100's of crew, there were only 4 main actors and another very minor (almost miss able role at the end). The dialogue is interesting and fairly heavy in places.
This is a good thoughtful sci-fi thriller, with good visuals and good 3d depth, it makes you consider the consequences when everything is computer controlled and the decisions you would make in similar circumstances? A film that I'd watch again.