Product: Passengers (2008)
Rating: 2.0
pretty lousy
There's two things you need to know right away- the first half of Passengers is NOTHING but lengthy love story segments involving Anne Hathaway's character and one of her patients. She's a therapist trying to help the survivors of a plane accident cope with their daily stress, and she becomes really close with one of the patients.The second thing you need to know- everything taking place for the first 80% of film leads to an ending that's intended to shock the viewers. It fails though, because for one thing it's poorly and predictably executed, and second of all, the weak writing you experience throughout the movie makes the conclusion incredibly underwhelming.A missed opportunity for a thriller pretty much sums up Passengers. Movie writers need to understand that in order for a thriller to work, you can't revolve ALL the events around one unexpected twist at the end (which, in my opinion at least, wasn't that unexpected anyway). You need to tell a solid story the entire time leading up to a satisfying conclusion. That's how a good thriller works, and that's what needs to be accomplished in order for me to rate these kind of movies favorably.