Two of Hollywood’s most wanted stars get together for a space love drama; Jennifer Lawrence is undoubtedly the hottest star after her ravishing performances in X men and Hunger Games catapulted her to one of Hollywood’s leading ladies and Chris Patt is a sensation ever since his uber cool Jurrasic Park became the highest grossers. Both these wonderful stars wind up lost in space, end up in love and the drama that unfolds after is a breathtaking product of entertainment, Love and graphics.
One look at the trailer and what you see is not entirely the plot of the movie. The director springs together a load of surprises including some at the end which might not end up good for many, but nevertheless goes as per what the story demands. The movie opens with a man waking up in a glass pod: Chris Pratt’s Jim is a strong mechanic who’s one of several thousand Earth people on their way to a distant planet, where they’ll start a new life (Hard not to compare Interstellar here). It takes a few hundred Earth years to get there, so everyone must be in hibernation/sleep on the way. But a pod malfunction has caused Jim to wake up 90 years too soon from his hibernation. Without being able to go back into sleep, he wanders through the ship, trying to figure out how he might game the system and get back to sleep. Everything onboard is controlled by invisible, automated voices—there’s no real human in sight, and no real human voice within earshot.
There’s only one person for Jim to talk to, and he isn’t even a person. Arthur- a well-dressed android robot who looks, talks and listens like a bartender but who’s really only programmed to do so. Jim spends hours at the bar, pouring out his loneliness and gets drunk a lot and wears ugly shorts all the time. And then suddenly, somehow, Jim is no longer alone. Enter Aurora, the name itself is enough to speak how much of a ravishing beauty she should be, enter Jennifer Lawence. Aurora awakens early too, and Jim wins her heart, but only through an act of deception. At first, Aurora has trouble accepting that she’s doomed to live the rest of her life on a mostly deserted space ship. But she succumbs to the idea, and to Jim, too. The two go for a romantic spacewalk, go out on a date and its Love lost in space. Overall it’s like two lovebirds from Titanic movie, only being lost like in Martian. Do they reach their destination? Or not? Forms the rest of the movie.
Sometime into the movie, it’s hard to resist comparing Passengers to various other stranded films like Cast away, Martian, Gravity and lots more. The reason being Chris Patt’s character is centered on so many of these movies, or rather influenced. The casting is probably the biggest winner, with two stylish super stars in the flick and their chemistry is simply sweet and hard not to cheer. However the predictability of the movie and the end note makes it a tad too boring, maybe the reason why the movie might fail to get into the bigger league. Jennifer Lawrence is so very cute and its pleasant to see her in roles apart from action like in X men or Mockingjay.
Passengers has its own flaws like predictability, the characterization of debatable Jim, patchy CGI and all that, but in the end it’s a movie with enough romance and drama to make it a decent watch.
