{"id":2066,"date":"2016-12-21T05:12:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T05:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinewipe.com\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2016-12-21T14:46:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T14:46:15","slug":"passengers-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinewipe.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/21\/passengers-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers review \u2013\u00a0Beautiful people in space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We really need more Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence. Not together. Just in general. I can\u2019t help but feel that every film without Pratt starring as the rugged man who says funny things suffers as a result. His dramatic versatility is truly earth-shattering, particularly in <em>Jurassic World<\/em> when he rides a motorbike alongside a pack of velociraptors. And there\u2019s <em>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>, where he shoots blue-painted people while jumping in slow motion. As for Jennifer Lawrence, I barely acknowledge the female lead in a film unless it\u2019s her playing the role. Although, that should go without saying, since she\u2019s currently the only actress working, due to everyone else being too fat and hairy. So it\u2019s a genuine delight to see them paired together in this expensive and shiny sci-fi romantic drama about beautiful people in space. <\/p>\n<p>Passengers asks the highly important question of what would happen if a spacecraft carrying 5000 people started malfunctioning and randomly woke up just one person from their hibernation pod. The Avalon is 30 years into its 120-year journey from Earth to a newly colonised planet when it gets caught in a cosmic shit storm. Peppered by asteroids, the shields fail and all of the important parts of the ship are damaged in such a way that the characters can gradually discover the problems, rather than instantly die from decompression. The mechanics subsequently trip balls and Jim (Pratt), a handsome white man, is woken from his pod 90 years too early. <\/p>\n<p>Doomed to walk the halls of the Avalon alone for the rest of his life, Jim ends up obsessing over Aurora (Lawrence), the first sexually attractive woman he can find sleeping in a pod. He pervertedly breathes on the glass, fogging it up like that scene in Titanic \u2013 but they don&#8217;t show his wrist action. Rather selfishly, he decides to wake her up and tell her that her pod malfunctioned, too. Thus ensues a romance built on the solid foundation of a lie and used tissues. <\/p>\n<p>The creepiness of Jim\u2019s actions sets a horrifying precedent for the rest of the film: there\u2019s no escaping each other. It\u2019s like a romantic version of <em>Alien<\/em>, where instead of being inseminated with a chest-popping worm, it\u2019s just love produce from a man you\u2019ve reluctantly accepted as the last person you\u2019ll ever see. Even if Aurora finds out that she was woken up, she might as well forgive him, otherwise she\u2019ll slowly go mad or find herself in a brilliant sci-fi isolation film, like <em>The Martian<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Having said that, Jim doesn\u2019t particularly have a creepy aura. We\u2019re meant to understand his decision to wake up Aurora, because living out the rest of your days alone definitely sounds shit. The truth is, Pratt is just so charismatic and funny that, even when he\u2019s taking someone\u2019s life from them, he still looks like the hero. When he gets into a spacesuit for the action-y scenes, it\u2019s as if all his previous acting experience has culminated to produce one entirely original protagonist that\u2019s in no way similar to his past three roles. <\/p>\n<p>The ship itself is adequately shiny, while the special effects convincingly surround the beautiful people with things they should probably be worried about. Like a weird swirling flame thing and a swimming pool that ends up floating because gravity decides to malfunction, too. Some might say that Lawrence is desperately sexualised, the script is laden with clich\u00e9s that are insulting to the audience, a third character is added and then taken away for convenience, and the final act confirms that director Mortem Tyldum thought he was making six different films. I, on the other hand, feel enriched by the experience, and I\u2019m thoroughly pleased that everyone involved made lots of money.<\/p>\n<p>1.5\/5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We really need more Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence. Not together. Just in general. 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