Nothing new here, would have been relevant 15 years ago

Rating: 6/10 (4 February 2017)

Right off the bat I think I can safely say that Passengers is not a groundbreaking sci fi movie. There are no new horizons being explored in this venture, rather a lot of things have been borrowed from various movies based in space and jumbled up to create Passengers. Lonely passenger stranded on space station - check, falling in love - check, betrayed by the one you love - check, disaster in space - check, lead pair saves the day - check, rogue AI - check. It's as if somebody saw a lot of sci fi movies over the ages and came up with a checklist of things to cover in Passenger. What's going for this movie then? 1. Good performances by our lead pair, esp. Chris Pratt who is getting better with each movie. 2. Visual effects And that's about it. It definitely does not qualify as a blockbuster movie and there is nothing to set it apart. It may work as a love story but not enough time was given for the lead pair to grow on you. the ending is kind off abrupt and I felt that they could have done away with the whole disaster angle and instead concentrated on the relationship issues one might face in isolation. That would have worked. 6 stars from me only for the acting.