Review of Passengers (2016) by Joshua D — 31 Jul 2017

A Sci-Fi Film that you can watch with your wife. Music score was awesome from haunting to moving the story along. Overall, it puts you in the movie (escape from your life aka entertainment) asking the same moral question while leaving the ending to your imagination and discussion as intended. I wish they made more Sci-Fi movies like this instead of another Horror flick with a Sci-Fi setting.

Simply put Gold Class people can order the mocha or cappuccino coffee so why wasn't she woken up sooner? As my wife said of it: "I hope you would have woken me up!" thus a successful selling of the romance in the movie.

In the end you can question the moral of the choice deep down knowing you would eventually do the same. In the end the filmmakers do "sell it" to the audience mainly be having a plot you can relate to. No psycho mind screw of some mentally screwed up character undergoing a violence-filled rampage fighting demons, aliens, or whatever non-plausible pushed past the point of selling it violence that Sci Fi horror likes to film. The film is a better take on the elements used in the movie Pandorum the film reminded me of: Right down to the reset reactor action against a timer. This movie did not cross some lines that it could have like waking up more than one person intentionally or exploring other breaking down of society.

The ships lack of sleep equipment the movie plot relies on is plausible, but leaves you wondering how Aurora would make a round trip let alone how or if the crew would also return.

Generally processors, CPU's, do not burn out even when running SETI 100% processor intensive tasks. It would be more plausible that the CPU's were busy and couldn't respond to input as this very overload situation nearly scrubbed the first moon landing, but, didn't burn out the computer.

The entire water ball scene needed to be left on the cutting room floor or the ships rotation stopping causing loss of gravity sold better.

Common to any sci-fi space movie: The external lights on and heated ship are a complete waste of power during the journey. Heated ship you can sell to the audience, but, 120 years of wasted lights on has even the longest lasting LED lights replaced several times over.

The lights in the space suit illuminating faces, that many other Sci-Fi films trip over, is blinding people in them (the actors) taking you out of the movie. Save some money and film the space suit without the implausible lit up faces.