Better than expected and not a Sci-Fi film

Rating: 8/10 (10 October 2018)

Going into this movie I had fairly low expectations given its reviews / score, and overall I was pleasantly surprised.
Although it is actually visually entertaining in a lot of scenes, I would not say Passengers is a Sci Fi movie at all - it is a movie which happens to be staged in space (under a not so farfetched premise I might add) about a moral dilemma the characters face and that allows you to opine on their actions throughout.
Their emotions and challenges did come across well to me as viewer, and if anything the action scenes (although fine) make it more a standard proposition than it otherwise would be, should it rest solely on the characters experience.
Pratt and Lawrence are not overwhelmingly good, but do not disappoint either.
Plot has some holes / questions it progresses, but overall the narrative is very well delivered and remains thought provoking through most of the movie.