A perfect blend of Sci-Fi and romance

Rating: 9/10 (8 January 2017)

Seeing this movie now is a great fit for me, a week after Rogue One, a movie I also liked, but I find its classification as Sci Fi to be mistaken, for the simple reason that science as is, doesn't really play a role in the story, it's just being used for gadgets and weapons for a story about Good v Evil about corrupting Power against the power of Hope.
While Passengers is driven by the science fiction idea of colonizing space and even more by the idea of people traveling in a fully automated ship hibernating all the way through their voyage. Without these two elements there's no story here. That's the reason this movie is first and foremost sci-fi. This sci-fi story drives a romantic adventure, or in other words, a love story about how two people can be an entire world among themselves if they do love each other.
It's much deeper than the cliché itself, because the story is well written. The characters are superbly written, and the actors are next to flawless, only four roles but each one performed as close to perfection as I've seen in a long while, and three of these four roles called for the highest quality of acting.
One last remark and a dual one regarding some comments I've read here. Regarding some scientific goofs in the script - these are plain nonsense. It doesn't matter at what real speed the meteor storm would look like, cinematically it made sense to show them at slow motion. It doesn't matter if the artificial gravity would malfunction under such conditions, this is one of the best visual ways of demonstrating that a space ship is falling apart. Another claim I feel I must refer to is that this is a rom-com. The fact that humor is used during the story telling doesn't make it a romantic comedy, there are funny moments because that's the way good relationship develop, but there's no comedy here. Just a very good sci-fi romance worth seeing.