i just loved it!

Rating: 8/10 (16 April 2017)

It's been a long time that i have given up on Hollywood blockbusters. Being more often than not very much the same, that is to say full to an unbearable extend of clichés, stereotypes, paper characters and arbitrary hence too predictable scripts, i find them too boring to watch in spite of their spectacular visual effects which i used to find impressive when i was a child but not anymore. This is the rule but as many rules this one too has its exceptions. Well, this rule does not apply to this film. What originally attracted my interest in the "passengers" was the beginning of the story: "One out of five thousand hibernated passengers of a spaceship traveling to a far distant planet wakes up because of a system malfunction ninety years before the arrival to a new interstellar colony, doomed to live, age and die in the ship before it reaches its destination". I found this idea very intriguing and though i have often in the past left in the lurch by interesting Hollywood script beginnings i decided to give this one a try. Well, i was not disappointed, not at all. Some clichés and stereotypes were of course there too, yet fully understandable given a mainstream adventure movie and not enough to prevent me from really enjoying the story -which was not just thrilling and intriguing, it was moving as well thanks to its combination of a survival drama and its very touching human feelings approach given the circumstances- from the beginning to its very end. Last but not least: Chris and Jeniffer - both beautiful and talented -in the leading roles is one of the film's assets.