Synopsis
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
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Cast
- Chris PrattJim Preston
- Jennifer LawrenceAurora Lane
- Michael SheenArthur
- Laurence FishburneGus Mancuso
- Andy GarcíaCaptain Norris
- Vince FosterExecutive Officer
- Kara FlowersCommunications Officer
- Conor BrophyCrew Member
- Julee CerdaInstructor (Hologram)
- Aurora PerrineauCeleste
Recommendations
- 80
Empire
Passengers is as surprisingly traditional as it is undeniably effective. A timeless romance wedded to a space-age survival thriller, it may be a curious coupling but Tyldum’s Turing follow-up is a journey well worth taking. - 60
Total Film
As sci-fi, it feels like a professionally produced hybrid that lacks its own identity. As a romance, it never fully earns your investment. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
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. - 50
Variety
There’s only one place for Passengers to go, and once it gets there, Jon Spaihts’s script runs out of gas. Tyldun handles the dialogue almost as if he were doing a stage play, but he turns out to be a blah director of spectacle; he doesn’t make it dramatic. - 42
IndieWire
Passengers refuses to really wrestle with the compelling questions at its core, instead opting to lean on Lawrence and Pratt’s collective charm to keep things ticking amiably along. - 40
The Guardian
Stalking tactics bolstering romantic comedies are by no means new, and over the decades, film-makers have proved adept at somehow planing down real-world nastiness, but here it’s gruesomely inescapable. - 40
Time Out London
There are a handful of really interesting scenes.... But for the most part Passengers is so anodyne, so frightened of the ethically troubling opportunities inherent in the setup that it just ends up feeling forgettable and silly. - 33
Entertainment Weekly
Passengers is not very good. In fact, it’s pretty bad.
