By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Morten Tyldum
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Kara Flowers, Vince Foster, Laurence Fishburne and Andy García.
Rating: Good.
Academy Award Director Nominee Morten Tyldum, brings “Passengers”, a Science Fiction film that obeyed his main premise: entertainment.
The movie takes place in the spaceship Avalon that travels to the planet Homestead II, where mechanical engineer Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) and an attractive writer Aurora Lane (Jennifer Lawrence) discover that they both wake up 90 years before their reached their destination.
Now both passengers have realized that the ship have a malfunction that compromised the whole hibernating process. Now both have to fix the problem before it`s too late and ultimately can lead in a major disaster for the mission and hibernating pods.
“Passengers” is not just a regular science fiction film. I do believe that is more than that and it´s an original love story.
The script written by Jon Spaihts, who also wrote Marvel Comics “Doctor Strange” wrote a unique and original screenplay. The flaw that I found here in the script it would be that most of the dialogue was on the nose and it was filled with many cliché moments.
The directing by Morten Tyldum was preety convincing and the technical choices he made were very good.
The cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto, who`s credit include movie like “Brokeback Mountain” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” once again did an amazing job with the use of camera movements and angles that made the film visually impressive.
I felt the movie was more focused in the looks then in terms of performance since there were moments that both Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt were to over the top with the performances.
Still I wasn´t bothered with that and I felt that the chemistry between the actors was preety good.
Another flaw that I saw was the ending. I think another ending with more dramatic feels would have been more interesting since most of the movie the main characters they have both internal and external conflicts and it could have been a good culmination to the story.
Despite the flaws that “Passengers” had I really enjoyed and I do think it an original love story. I still believe that it could have been a better film but I was pretty satisfied.
“Passengers” is a good science fiction and drama film and I hope you are going to be entertained and pleased.