Passengers not quite first class

Rating: 6/10 (22 April 2017)

Plot; During an interstellar flight to a new colony world, one of the ship's five thousand passengers is accidentally awakened early from sleep hibernation.
Most of the criticism surrounding Passengers centers around taking it to task for what it isn't, or for not being all that it could have been, and ultimately I agree. Instead of focusing on the moral and ethical dilemma of the choice made by Chris Pratt's character and its consequences, or acting as an exploration of loneliness and the human need for companionship, it instead grafts those themes onto a boilerplate romance. Pratt and co-star Jennifer Lawrence lift the material with strong performances and good chemistry and help to make Passengers a reasonably entertaining sci-fi/romantic/drama, but I can't help but feel that hidden deep within is a much better film.