a wonderful surprise

Rating: 8/10 (19 January 2017)

Passengers is a sci-fi romance starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence as the two protagonists embarking on a ninety year journey across the universe,this movie is a self contained movie taking place entirely on the ship homestead and gives a unique story telling experience for the director to show the isolation of space travel if you were completely alone on an absolutely massive space ship,although i extremely enjoyed this film and i had a lot of entertainment watching it some things bothered me but ultimately didn't effect my overall enjoyment of the film and one of the best movies I've seen this year.
Characters Although there are only four prominent characters in this movie each character gets motivation,a unique personality and great character development that has a pay off and makes the viewer get invested in these great cast of characters,in my opinion a smaller cast allows for more development and gives more time to flesh out the characters as human beings and not just props,this type of self contained story telling is personally my favourite and investing me into the movie,the character personalities are portrayed fantastically by the lead roles of Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence who are great actors,the chemistry between their characters through the movie expands and gives an organic and sweet romance that surprised me it mixed well into a sci-fi movie based around isolation.
Plot Seeing the trailers, i knew almost nothing about the plot and was fascinated to see the kind of ideas they would address having an entire space ship as their playground,the topic of isolation was the idea i wanted them to emphasize throughout the film and the utter loneliness you would experience completely isolated from everyone else,although they did show moments of loneliness during the film and were the highlights of the film in my opinion but saying that it doesn't emphasis the characters isolation in full which i would have liked to see and would have immersed my experience in this film by a whole lot having such a great actor that can fully pull this off. another aspect of this film that really confused me was the time span of this film and over how long a time it shows these characters lives on this ship,although it is explained in this film that the movie takes place over a long time span it does not show that time in the movie and really confused me during the viewing of this movie,in my personal opinion this aspect is not a big problem and will not take away from the overall experience.
This movie was a very unique experience for me and had a lot of fun watching this film,i would highly recommend this film to regular movie-goers and sci-fi lovers because it offers a very rich and unique twist on space travel and the idea of isolation in this massive ship along with a very organically played out chemistry between the two leads of this movie. 8 out of 10