Over-hyped but still a decent film

Rating: 7/10 (14 January 2017)

This film proved that the two most lovable actors in Hollywood have some amazing chemistry together, if only they were in a film that actually contained a reasonable plot. Passengers follows the lives of Jim (Chris Pratt) and Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence), two passengers on their voyage to a new life on an uninhabited Earth-like planet who are somehow awoken 90 years earlier than their estimated arrival date. This film is essentially a tedious cast-away love story in the worlds largest shopping mall in space, which truthfully, may not have been as great as the Axiom in Pixar's Wall-E. There is a good heap of comedy and wit (from Michael Sheen) that makes the movie a bit more worthwhile, but the film totally fails to live up to its potential by simply casting a shadow over its already dark premise. There was just so much hype from this film and I'm utterly disappointed at what Morten Tyldum did with this film, especially after what he had done with "The Imitation Game". Though I will admit most of the special effects in the film were quite amazing, but then again that was to be expected.
Ali's Rating: C+