Passengers Film Review

Finished watching Passengers, directed by Morten Tyldum and staring Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen and Jennifer Lawrence. The film opens up with spaceship the Avalon thirty years into its hundred and twenty years journey to a distance planet in hope to colonise it with its five thousand passengers. After going through a bunch of asteroids when one brakes apart on the Avalon's shields and hitting into the shop which causes multiple system failures including a passenger's pods that awakes engineer Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) 90 years to early and no way of going back to sleep. After nearly a year alone in the ship with the only hint of interaction with another person is the android bartender Arthur (Michael Sheen) Jim gets dunk on night and almost commits suicide by jumping of the an airlock with no spacesuit but when he gets scared he falls over a bottle and notices writer Aurora Lane (Jennifer Lawrence) who he quickly becomes fascinated by her an her work and ends up making the decision to wake her up so he won't be alone any more. Overall this was a decent film as it focuses more on the character interactions rather than a good story as it is quite basic but is help by the level of acting of the films cast. The aesthetic of the Avalon is great as the futuristic designs of the different technologies on show is a nice touch to the film. 6/10.