Passengers (2016)

Passengers 

Dir: Morten Tyldum

       Cast: Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne

    Being on a spaceship thousands of miles from home can get lonely. Just ask Jim
 (Chris Pratt), a guy who's been awakened from suspended animation early into the
 120 year journey. Searching the ship for others, he finds no one around. To keep
 himself company, he makes use of the ships facilities like dining at a fancy 
 restaurant to socializing with the robot bartender (Sheen). The bar scene
 was reminiscent of Stanley Kubrik's The Shining.

    Soon he realizes he needs human companionship. So he opens the pod of
a beautiful young write named Aurora (Lawrence). They spend the rest of the
film trying to find out why his pod was opened early.

   This movie felt like a soap opera rather than a space opera. The pacing of the 
film and story were very slow. I got to about halfway before turning it off. It 
is one of the few movies that I haven't been able to finish and that's saying alot.
I'd rather have been put in one of the pods just to see how it ends.

    While the trailer looked promising, Pratt and Lawrence share zero chemistry. In 

a nutshell, he's boring and she's helpless. This film doesn't know what kind of 
movie it wants to be. Is it an action? a drama ? a comedy ? Either way it doesn't 
really matter as the script should've been put back in the pods. It makes for a 
dull, tiresome scifi flick. It's not the worst scifi movie but worst with a big budget.

Grade: D (5/10)