Don't know how to feel about it

Rating: 6/10 (5 February 2017)

I decided to give a shot to Passengers, due to its delicious trailer. The movie starts pretty well: 5 minutes that will leave stuck to the screen. Well done special effects and a feeling of 'suspense' in the air of what might happen next. I was constantly wondering when Jennifer was going to show up - and that was my first disappointment. Jim talking with his "Robot-bartender-friend" about the dilemma of waking her up or not. This really upset me. He just read a few things about the woman (and by the way, those things showed a girl with dreams, goals and purposes) and he "decided" that he was in love. I know, maybe this isn't what the author meant, but it was what I saw. It would have been better if Jim couldn't bear the pressure of being alone for so long and decided to wake up someone to help him out, instead of just looking at her face in a completely forced scene. The author could have picked a number of passengers and showed us their motivations to embark on a journey of hundreds of years to a completely different space and life. And for deeper reasons, Jim would chosen Aurora. It'd have been more interesting. The ending is a disaster. They decided to stay together and live that life to which they were basically forced. I finished this movie with a knot in my stomach when I saw the others passengers waking up and the Aurora's messenger. It broke my heart. Alternative ending? Maybe she could have go back to where she was taken from. They've could say goodbye with all those clichés that the author obviously likes and she could wake up 88 years later with a unique experience to tell to the other travelers. I feel like this movie was meant to talk about love, life and solitude. But it was so predictable and obvious all the time. The key-messages are given by the bartender: ''when one is drowning, has to take someone else with him" and also "you can't wait for what happens next. you have to live with what you have and make the most of it". I got them, but one more time, this was barely showed in this movie. Positive words for the movie pictures and the actors. I'm not a fan of Jennifer but I have to admit that she and Chris Patt make an attractive couple. For me this movie is like a bad cooked chocolate cake. It had all the ingredients to be wonderful, but someone didn't know how to prepare it.