Love story in space

Rating: 9/10 (21 May 2017)

Passengers falls in the category of movies,that you expected to see something else,BUT still like very much what you actually watched.The trailer is misleading,in the sense that you go watch the film,and it's totally different from what the trailer suggests the film is. 5000 people(sleeping in hibernation chambers) are in a spaceship heading for a distant colony.The trip will last 120 years but a malfunction in one of the chambers has Jim Preston(Chris Pratt)waking up after 30 years.He soon realizes what's going on and after a year living alone in the spaceship, decides deliberately to wake up Aurora Lane(Jennifer Lawrence),because he can't live alone anymore.Of course he doesn't tell her the truth, but pretends that she woke up because of a similar malfunction in her chamber. Won't tell you anymore, but the film is about the relationship that develops between those two.Pratt and Lawrence have a fine chemistry between them,and in the end they will probably be one of your favorite cinema couples(for me at least).The special effects are fine and the swimming pool scene where there is no gravity,is quite spectacular,but the film isn't about adventure or effects or action.It's a love story that you will like very much and that will make you want to watch the film again and again(I will definitely buy the Blu Ray). Overall Passengers is not an action movie,is not a sci-fi movie(at least in the usual version),it's a movie about a man and a woman who basically are alone in the universe,it's a movie about love.You will like it!!