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Whatever the critical consensus, though, the marquee leads are sure to entice moviegoers seeking grown-up action-adventure.Īs he showed in his first English-language feature, The Imitation Game, Norwegian director Morten Tyldum knows how to hit the prescribed emotional notes, but subtlety is not his strong suit. Yet while Passengers offers a few shrewd observations about our increasingly tech-enabled, corporatized lives, its heavy-handed mix of life-or-death exigencies and feel-good bromides finally feels like a case of more being less. Under less shiny, by-the-numbers direction, the story might have soared, or at least been more stirring. There is, at first, a thrilling what-if in Jon Spaihts’ screenplay, which concocts a sort of Titanic in outer space, with dollops of “Sleeping Beauty” and Gravity thrown into the high-concept mix. But things happen when you’re in a sci-fi adventure. As future-world earthlings en route to another planet, they’re supposed to be in a state of suspended animation, not awake and functioning and falling in love. The meet-cute between Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt in Passengers isn’t so cute it touches on messy ethical questions, and matters of life and death.

Starship titanic and passengers movie