One for the ladies...could have been better

Rating: 6/10 (26 January 2017)

This is an OK love story, a visually spectacular space film.... but a mediocre action/thriller. I do love my 'acid for blood films' late 70's and 80's etc and recently 'Arrival', that was a far superior, thought provoking tale.
'Passengers' could have been so much better, had a little bit more joined up thinking been encouraged.....so this is how it could have been.....(I guess there is a sequel in the following!) SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT ...instead of the ending you got, a much better one, without (aliens, war and time travel!)....would be Miss Lane gets pregnant (which I suggests DOES happen) and then they discuss waking the midwife they found earlier (remember?) An assessment by the AutoDoc reveals a congenital defect in the baby that could be treated on Homestead II but not in the AutoDoc forcing Miss Lane reluctantly, but understandably into the modified AutoDoc hyper sleep unit knowing that James will be dead when she arrives at Homestead II. 90 years later they arrive to find James has built a second AutoDoc from all the spare parts..... because there's a spare for everything!....big musical number, love all round, the baby's called Satori and I get an Oscar for most original plot ending for what could have been a spectacular space action love story!.........roll on 'AlienATE' (another for Ridley Scott to consider!)