IronWatcher’s review published on Letterboxd:
Watched on Netflix
I watched this in the cinema when it came out and I have to say I only saw this again to review it and to be through with this shit forever.
The first half hour of Passengers begins really promising, especially if you have seen the misleading trailer before. The fact that Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence are both awake is not due to chance.
Apart from the fact that the character of Pratt apparently doesn't try very hard to pick someone out of the 5000 passengers of the spaceship, with whom he can live and die, but wakes up the first one who looks attractive, all of the realistic human behavior patterns within the movie are neglected in favor of a really remarkably boring, unbelievable survival love story, which ends in shallow kitsch that I hated.
Pratt and Lawrence are good and it's amazing how similar hillbilly Chris Pratt looks to Kurt Russell in The Thing, but her character Aurora is written damn naively: She is an author and journalist and should have enough knowledge of human nature to see through Chris Pratt's secret. But she doesn't. After weeks an android has to tell her what Laurence Fishburne later finds out within minutes. That's what I call untrustworthy character development.
If we can actually undertake interstellar, year-long journeys in the future, then I hope for all mankind that no one will even begin to orient themselves to the technical conditions of this film. For the fact that countless times it is said in the film: "That's impossible!", the impossible happens quite often.
I'm not surprised that the guy who wrote this, co-wrote Prometheus. What deeply concerns me, is that this guy co-writes Denis Villeneuve's Dune. Hope he won't be responsible for anything characters say.
