Passengers review

Rating: 9/10 (1 January 2017)

Now, first off, I have seen the RT score for this film before going to see it; about four or five days prior, more specifically. And just for that, I became somewhat nervous about seeing about seeing the film. So after doing just that, I will say that this film was ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING. I have no idea why it has the rating that it does (I mean, I would expect it to be at least somewhere in the 50s), because this movie is one of the best I've seen all year. The movie is directed by Morten Tyldum, written by Jon Spaihts, and stars Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt who share very decent chemistry with one-another.
With all of that said, I must say that this by far the best Sci-fi film I have ever seen since Interstellar. I mean, the opening was, there I say, breathtaking, but the way the whole thing is executed is absolutely brilliant! Now many critics, from what I know, have complained about its story-line, and I can certainly understand why.
From my first thoughts, as soon as Aurora awakens from her pod, Jim immediately goes running off to, what I can assume, hide from her until she walks out and about the same way he did. And when introducing himself to her, there really isn't much of a mystery behind him; we already know him but we don't really know her, or so we think. Maybe if they had switched the first and second and, then maybe we would've gotten to know HER character more before his. But that really isn't the case.
It seems as though many have complained about the way the plot was structured, but half of them, surprisingly, have criticized it for its execution of most things; more specifically, the fact that Pratt's character wakes Lawrence's up. And yes, I'm aware that they didn't make that quite clear in the trailer. But for the sake of unpredictability, I'm actually glad that they didn't. The first half of this movie focuses entirely on Pratt's character, Jim. And the reason for which is because we UNDERSTAND HIS ACTIONS. Being the only human awake and active on a ship for that long, that can and would be very difficult to cope with.
The one problem I DID have, however (but it may just be a nitpick), was during the first act when Pratt had that long facial hair coming in; not only did it look laughably fake, it seemed goofy and a little bit out of place.
For my final verdict, for a long time I was expecting to see a science fiction movie that would let me actually think, and that is exactly what I got when and after viewing this; like Interstellar, as well as 2001: A Space Odyssey, IT LET'S YOU USE YOUR MIND.