This is an excellent movie, period !

Rating: 8/10 (26 July 2017)

I always take the professional critic reviews with a grain of salt, because after all they get saturated with watching movies, and generally lose that natural magic feeling after a while...many of them definitely missed the mark on Passengers...
A solid 8, that's what I gave Passengers. In the modern world of movie making, I have had a hard time finding one or two that really grab all the emotions...
This is one of the best scifi movies I have seen recently. It possesses all the elements that make for excellent story telling, yet without all the space action the usual space epics have...in short, this is a love story, a well done science fiction story, a human condition story, and everything in between...all rolled into one extremely well told and entertaining narrative...
One thing I noticed in some of the reviews, is the technical accuracy in the movie. By that I mean that much of the science implied is already being experimented with, so it isn't hard to relate to the movie from that perspective. But the story itself isn't really about science at all. It is totally about two people, and their lives on a star ship...
No, I won't tell all the story, it needs to be seen to be appreciated completely. If you want fast paced movies, this is not it, but it does have a lot of fast action scenes woven in...and, some viewers will find the ending something of a let down. My housemate finally watched it, and she wanted more to the ending, heh heh...but even though it ends rather blandly, it is nonetheless very poignant...
I am very glad they created this one...!!!