Accidentally on Purpose.

Rating: 6/10 (20 August 2017)

Passengers is a highly enjoyable film to watch, however, it feels like it was one thing, that meant to be another, or, it was one thing, made to be another. The angle Passengers took makes me dismiss all its science, not because it may be wrong, like, really wrong, but rather, because science seems almost moot in this particular Science Fiction.
Passengers almost feels like a wasted premise... This movie, though again I'll repeat - very enjoyable, needed a more accomplished director at the helm, like the director of The Imitation Game for instance. Yes, I know it's Morten Tyldum too, but this film didn't quite have that edge.
The romance conundrum was pretty great, and what would've made it completely marvelous is how Jim would fix it all... Sadly, I'm not sure Jim did fix it. A happy ending for an unforgivable act was imposed, at the cost of intense emotional depth. What Jim did was wrong, and though his situation wasn't his fault, it wasn't Aurora's either, and Aurora being afraid of being alone, doesn't make it right.
Sure, had Jim not woken Aurora, everybody would've died... But, at the point of his decision, Jim didn't know this, but, if the argument is fate, then...
This film should've never been advertised as a Sci-Fi, but rather, a Romance Drama Adventure, and needed that edge, that depth, that quality acting ability that Jennifer Lawrence can harness.
Passengers meant to be a 7+/10, but accidentally became a 6.4/10.