Romantic Sci-Fi

Rating: 6/10 (23 December 2016)

I saw "Passengers", starring Jennifer Lawrence-The Hunger Games movies, The X-Men movies; Chris Pratt-Guardians of the Galaxy, Jennifer's Body; Michael Sheen-Nocturnal Animals, The Underworld movies and Laurence Fishburne-Black-ish_tv, Batman v Superman:Dawn of Justice.
This is a romantic sci-fi movie-Fun fact, Jennifer got 20 million for her payday whereas Chris only got 10 million. Jennifer and Chris are among the 5,000 passengers and 380 crew members aboard a space ship headed to colonize a distant planet. It will take 120 years to get there so everyone is in suspended animation. The ship is on auto pilot. Something goes wrong after 30 years and Chris wakes up. After he realizes what happened, he tries to go back into his sleep pod but he can't get it to work. Then he decides to check out the accommodations of the ship, since he still has 90 years before he will reach the planet, and he finds things quite comfortable. Plenty of places to eat and drink, exercise rooms, gaming rooms. Heck, there is even a robot bartender, played by Michael. But after about a year, he starts getting bored and stir crazy. I mean you can only eat, drink, exercise, play games and talk to a robot for so much before you start getting suicidal thoughts. That is when he finds Jennifer's pod. He starts visiting her and reading about her from the files in the ship's computer-she is a journalist-and then he wrestles with a dilemma; he is an engineer so he could mess with her pod and wake her up for some companionship, but then, she would die, like himself, long before they reached their destination. Guess which decision he makes? And guess what happens when she finds out what he did? See, the basic plot of a rom-com. Anyway, Laurence plays the pilot of the ship and his pod malfunctions too-maybe, if they waited long enough, everyone else would have a malfunction and wake up too. Laurence seems to have been put into the movie just to help Chris and Jennifer on a few little things. It's rated "PG-13" for action/peril and sexual content-including nudity- and has a running time of 1 hour & 54 minutes. I like both Chris & Jennifer and the effects are good but I don't think I would buy it on DVD-once was enough-but it would be alright as a rental.