Jen and Chris pay homage to Kubrick

Rating: 8/10 (10 July 2017)

I admit that Morten Tyldum's "Passengers" isn't any sort of masterpiece, but it's nonetheless an impressive piece of work. Aside from the main plot, I liked the tributes to Stanley Kubrick's movies (setting in outer space, talking computers, the bar scenes, trying to chop through a door; just add a Beethoven soundtrack and you'd have a clean sweep).
Like a number of movies, the movie warns us about over-reliance on technology, with lots of suspense to keep things going. Even so, I feel like the voyage that the spaceship makes would be a cool one (even if everyone's asleep for most of it). I wonder if we'll ever have commercial space travel.
Anyway, it's an enjoyable movie.