Highly underrated

Rating: 8/10 (16 October 2017)

When I first seen the reviews of Passengers I held off watching it until it came out on DVD, and after I finished watching it, I was very surprised at the bad reviews. This is not a bad movie, but also not a great one either.
The movie starts off very, very well with some absolutely spectacular set pieces, visuals and sound. I haven't seen set pieces this good since the Empire Strikes Back. They truly are a work of art. In the opening we are introduced to Chris Pratt's character, Jim. And in this first act of the film, Chris gives without question his best acting ever. Not only because of how good he is here, but how he breaks out of his usual typecasting funny, clumsy loon, who makes a fool of himself, here he is an isolated mess, with a very Jesus like look. This in my opinion was the best part of this movie, as it deals with what we all fear most, being alone.
The second act changes from a drama to a romance movie, when Jennifer Lawrence's character Aurora is introduced. I really believed Jennifer in this role, her character was well thought out and I wanted to know more about her background. The chemistry between Chris and Jennifer was flawless, they truly worked well on screen, which I was glad for. If not this movie would have fell flat on its face. This is however, where the movie slows down a lot, and may turn a lot of people off. It gets bogged down in very corny romance, and I must say, very steamy sex scenes for the rating it has. It's not a bad section of the movie, but I really did think it got very slow and predictable.
The third act changes into a thriller, and is handled very well. While I'm no science expert, I think some of the space scenes were a little far fetched and during this section we are introduced to Laurence Fishburne's character, who was pretty much just there, he doesn't do much at all and his underdeveloped character didn't have anything interesting to do at all.
Passengers is a very underrated movie, and it irritated me greatly about its reviews, even more so when the piece of trash Ghostbusters 2016 got more positive reactions by idiotic critics.
This movie won't be for everyone, some will hate the slow paced romance, but if you like that, this movie will please you.
8.3/10