Sorry, but this is just an average movie

Rating: 5/10 (16 February 2017)

I have seen this movie cast and decided not to watch it, than a week later in boredom I watched the trailer, and confirmed that it is not good enough to spend 2 hours on. Another 2 weeks later I opened user ratings here on IMDb and saw 3 full pages of glittering reviews and I buckled. I should have listened to myself. It was not worth my time. I found myself hovering my mouse over the forward button deliberating fast forwarding in some barely digestible parts of this experience.
Don't get me wrong. I love sci-fi. Even mediocre sci-fi amuses me tremendously. But this was just a cheap melodrama in a sci-fi suit.
Interesting story premise, with some science in there. Toss it in an unimaginative future where society seems mostly like today and send someone a century into the future in the future to another planet leaving his life behind, and don't explore that crazy concept in the movie at all but focus on a melodramatic cheap love story with bad acting and you have The Passengers.
While effects and camera work are good acting is just bellow par. Especially by Jeniffer Lawrence. I'm sorry to any fans but she is just a bad actress. I never saw a good roll of hers. Yes, Hollywood had some good movies with bad actors but they were at least actors with strong or interesting character. She has absolutely no personality and seem that therefor she can't assume one either. I could for instance imagine Gwyneth Paltrow in her younger days just giving amazing performance in this roll, though.
But focus on the melodrama here, and having science and interesting story just like background stage is just bad choice and makes the whole movie pretty unbelievable and cringe worthy.
Toss in some melodramatic music over some scenes and you just might get sick of your pop-corn.