Lame, boring and plain disgusting

Rating: 1/10 (13 January 2017)

Passengers opens up with Jim (Pratt), who wakes up in an empty spaceship 90 years too early. He wanders around for 30min (which is almost precisely a one year in the story), drinks whisky and finds a hot blonde Aurora (Lawrence) in a cryogenic pod. He builds a juvenile crush on her while watching her sleep every day like a perv. Tormented by loneliness and boredom, he decides to wake her up for his own pleasure, even though it means he will basically doom her to death by old age. What a lowlife.
And how boring lady this "writer" turn out to be. She has nothing interesting to say and is just a pretty blonde, who for some reason wants to travel 120 years to a new home planet, live there for one (1) year and travel back another 120 years to Earth just to witness some kind of a time jump 200 years into the future! Wow, what a fool. Seriously, why see such trouble, when you can't even be sure what happens after the first 120 years (or just 35 years). Maybe the new home planet is not what it seemed, or maybe Earth is not like it used to be. What then? So naive, but so is the whole movie.
Jim and Aurora build a relationship based mostly on lust. They are together alone, so it was mandatory. But all the forced sex and sappy love scenes were too much. I almost left the theater at that point. What a horrible, anti-climatic script writing. It got slightly better towards the end and almost felt like a sci-fi movie at times, but the ending killed it completely. The film could have redeemed itself, when Aurora had to make a choice. I should have guessed it at that point. Instead, like a sucker I still hoped to witness some logic in the characters, but no. Aurora exposes herself to be as depraved human being as Jim when she decides to forgive the "murderer" and choose the "perv" and continue her life on the ship with "enter another character flaw here".
The special effects are sparse for a sci-fi movie. Only captivating scenes were the anti-gravity water bubble and passing of Arcturus. But why bypass a star, if not by a coincidence, if they had already gained about 50% light speed. Makes no sense.
It amazes me what kind of trite actually gets released today by Hollywood. Lame script writing, idiotic and annoying characters, bad physics in SF, compulsory sex scenes, boring green scene acting, absolutely zero suspense. Ever so happy endings are aimed for the masses, I get it, but it mainly sickens me. It kills the creative vision and suspense, same thing as if every book had to begin with a line "Once upon a time...". It gets old and repetitive. I really felt cheated and disgusted while watching this bore fest.