Monday, December 26, 2016

Passengers (2016)

Intended (and mostly successful) sci-fi crowed pleaser stars Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence as passengers on an interstellar settlement ship bound for the colony world of Homestead II, only they awake from their suspended animation slumber 90 years too early, and their seems to be growing technical problems with the ship. You've kind of seen this movie before, there is some Wall-E here, some Silent Running, and Duncan Jones Moon. The plot is maybe a little thin, but it looks beautiful (love the design on that ship) and the leads are charismatic, including Michael Sheen as a wall mounted android bartender. That being said, and not to spoil too much because its worth it going in for the most part unawares, but its kind of a creepy movie, but not in the sense you may be anticipating. To the films credit they do deal with the gorilla in the room element of the film, how successfully they do so is up to the viewer to decide. I thought they did an okay job of handling it, but still... ***

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