Passengers: The Beautiful People Movie

Rating: 6/10 (14 March 2017)

I was highly skeptical of Passengers, though I liked the concept I simply couldn't see past the studio literally picking the two "Hottest" young current stars as the leads. It all seemed so forced, right down to their criminally photoshopped cover images.
Not anything against them, they are a talented pair. But their chemistry wasn't there and that's something you'd think would be a problem with the creators not something to be ignored for the purpose of ratings. I mean they did have a $110 million budget to make back.
Heavily promoted, this is one I couldn't avoid if I wanted to so I eventually took the dive and found myself torn with the results.
First off as you'd expect for a movie of that budget it all looks great, polished to near perfection the film is a visual treat no doubt.
Trouble is the movie is your standard Hollywood formula, predictable, clichéd & shiny. Though the premise is solid, the creators clearly didn't know how to fully utilize this so the movie fell short.
Top that off with me thinking Pratt should stick to comedy and being poorly cast here and the movie was littered with flaws.
But again it's big and it's shiny and Lawrence looks beautiful as always so it's very easy to be distracted by the fact that the movie isn't actually very good.
The ending I found questionable but overall this could have been a complete garbage fire, yet avoided this and resulted in a watchable effort if you can get through the overbearing Hollywood tropes.