Small movie concept in a big movie budget

Rating: 7/10 (4 July 2017)

Passengers is a movie with a very simple concept. A spaceship is on a journey that will take 120 years to reach its destination and all of its passengers and crew are in hibernation. Along the way two people wake up far too early and have to decide how to go on with their lives.
When the movie sticks to this concept, it's very successful. It conveys the loneliness of being the only human(s) around at the moment, along with the knowledge that they will die prior to reaching their destination and won't make further human contact. Jennifer Lawrence and, even more-so, Christ Pratt convey the emotions their characters must be going through.
It's the third act which knocks a few points off for me as the movie moves outside of the realm of character study and into slightly more sci-fi areas. The script at that point gets very generic, and is less character focused. fortunately, the movie does get back to point before the end.