Passengers
No. No. No. No No. No. No. I don't know who convinced Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt to make Passengers, but they should be fired.
The film follows Jim (Chris Pratt), a mechanic who agrees to take a voyage to start a new life on a colony. The initial idea is that the trip entails 120 years of hibernation, followed by four months of reintegration to prepare passengers for life on the foreign land. Where Jim comes into play is that he awakens 90 years before the scheduled integration period when his hibernation pod malfunctions. After spending a year by himself, he decides to wake up another passenger. He chooses Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence), a writer who chose to go on the trip to become the first person ever to travel to a colony and back. She has no idea that Jim woke her up and believes that it was a pod malfunction like Jim's. They fall in love, but as the ship begins to decompose and threatens the life of the 5,000 people in hibernation, it is up to them to try and save everyone.
This film was a trainwreck. It started out with a mildly interesting concept, but what follows is a waste of talent at the price of a lousy script, boring dialogue, horrible characters, and just an overall bad taste in the mouth. I have no clue what exactly Jennifer Lawrence was doing but she definitely channeled her inner Nicholas Cage and let me be clear THAT IS NOT A GOOD THING. Chris Pratt plays a character who is so self centered and lonely that he completely ruins another person's life. His intentions are noble, but it had a horrible execution and it just played off as creepy.
Without all the qualities of a good movie, the film goes out guns blazing to create an incoherent mess out of nothing there. The only thing that makes this film any sort of worth whileness is the android bartender, Arthur. He brings a sort of warmness that is needed to this cold and distant wannabe thriller.
I give this film a 1/2 star out of 5 stars. I hope nothing that the two leads ever make will be as bad as this film. And a note to Jennifer Lawrence: Yes, Nicholas Cage started out a good actor, but he proceeded to lead a career of notorious memes and bad, hammy performances. DO NOT TURN INTO HIM. You are much better than that. Please don't let this be a defining moment in your career.
The film follows Jim (Chris Pratt), a mechanic who agrees to take a voyage to start a new life on a colony. The initial idea is that the trip entails 120 years of hibernation, followed by four months of reintegration to prepare passengers for life on the foreign land. Where Jim comes into play is that he awakens 90 years before the scheduled integration period when his hibernation pod malfunctions. After spending a year by himself, he decides to wake up another passenger. He chooses Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence), a writer who chose to go on the trip to become the first person ever to travel to a colony and back. She has no idea that Jim woke her up and believes that it was a pod malfunction like Jim's. They fall in love, but as the ship begins to decompose and threatens the life of the 5,000 people in hibernation, it is up to them to try and save everyone.
This film was a trainwreck. It started out with a mildly interesting concept, but what follows is a waste of talent at the price of a lousy script, boring dialogue, horrible characters, and just an overall bad taste in the mouth. I have no clue what exactly Jennifer Lawrence was doing but she definitely channeled her inner Nicholas Cage and let me be clear THAT IS NOT A GOOD THING. Chris Pratt plays a character who is so self centered and lonely that he completely ruins another person's life. His intentions are noble, but it had a horrible execution and it just played off as creepy.
Without all the qualities of a good movie, the film goes out guns blazing to create an incoherent mess out of nothing there. The only thing that makes this film any sort of worth whileness is the android bartender, Arthur. He brings a sort of warmness that is needed to this cold and distant wannabe thriller.
I give this film a 1/2 star out of 5 stars. I hope nothing that the two leads ever make will be as bad as this film. And a note to Jennifer Lawrence: Yes, Nicholas Cage started out a good actor, but he proceeded to lead a career of notorious memes and bad, hammy performances. DO NOT TURN INTO HIM. You are much better than that. Please don't let this be a defining moment in your career.
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