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On [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 30% based on 181 reviews; the average rating is 4.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "''Passengers'' proves Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence work well together – and that even their chemistry isn't enough to overcome a fatally flawed story."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/passengers_2016 |title=Passengers (2016) |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |accessdate=December 28, 2016}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a score of 41 out of 100 based on 48 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/passengers-2016 |title=Passengers reviews |publisher=[[Metacritic]]|accessdate=December 23, 2016}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.<ref name="CinemaScore"> {{cite web |url=https://m.cinemascore.com |title=CinemaScore |work=cinemascore.com}}</ref> |
On [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 30% based on 181 reviews; the average rating is 4.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "''Passengers'' proves Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence work well together – and that even their chemistry isn't enough to overcome a fatally flawed story."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/passengers_2016 |title=Passengers (2016) |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes |accessdate=December 28, 2016}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a score of 41 out of 100 based on 48 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/passengers-2016 |title=Passengers reviews |publisher=[[Metacritic]]|accessdate=December 23, 2016}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.<ref name="CinemaScore"> {{cite web |url=https://m.cinemascore.com |title=CinemaScore |work=cinemascore.com}}</ref> |
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Several reviewers have criticized the ethics of the core plot point, where Jim decides to awake one of the hibernating travelers for companionship. Rebecca Hawkes |
Several reviewers have criticized the ethics of the core plot point, where Jim decides to awake one of the hibernating travelers for companionship. Rebecca Hawkes of [[Telegraph Media Group|The Telegraph]] described the film as not a romance but "a creepy ode to manipulation", describing it as a "central act of violence" that is softened and justified, said that the marketing team deliberately hid in the trailers the reason why Aurora wakes up, and compared it to a morally similar act in [[Interstellar (film)|Interstellar]] where the perpetrator is shown as an antagonist.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/12/16/chris-pratt-jennifer-lawrences-passengers-isnt-romance-creepy/|title=Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence's Passengers isn't a romance: it's a creepy ode to manipulation|newspaper=The Telegraph|access-date=2016-12-29}}</ref> Andrew Pulver of [[The Guardian]]<nowiki/>called it an "an interstellar version of social-media stalking" and "a fantastically creepy start" that, contrary to romantic comedies that manage to "plane down" the nastiness of stalking tactics, here it’s "gruesomely inescapable".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/15/passengers-review-spaceship-romcom-scuppered-chris-pratt-jennifer-lawrence|title=Passengers review – spaceship romcom scuppered by cosmic creep|last=Pulver|first=Andrew|date=2016-12-15|newspaper=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2016-12-29}}</ref> |
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== References == |
== References == |
Revision as of 11:28, 29 December 2016
Passengers | |
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Directed by | Morten Tyldum |
Written by | Jon Spaihts |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Guy Hendrix Dyas Rodrigo Prieto |
Edited by | Maryann Brandon |
Music by | Thomas Newman |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 116 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $110 million[2] |
Box office | $35.9 million[2] |
Passengers is a 2016 American science fiction adventure film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Jon Spaihts. It stars Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, and Andy García. The film tells about two people who wake up 90 years too soon from an induced hibernation on board a spaceship bound for a new planet. The film was released in the United States on December 21, 2016, by Columbia Pictures, received mixed reviews and has grossed $35 million.
Plot
The starship Avalon is transporting over 5000 colonists to the planet Homestead II, a journey that takes 120 years. The colonists are in hibernation pods, but a malfunction awakens one passenger, mechanical engineer Jim Preston (Chris Pratt), 90 years early.
After a year of isolation with only Arthur (Michael Sheen), a robot bartender, for company, Jim, who has grown increasingly despondent, notices beautiful Aurora Lane (Jennifer Lawrence) in one of the pods. Her video passenger profile reveals her funny personality and that she is a writer. Jim struggles over the morality of awakening Aurora for companionship but eventually manually revives her. Initially, Jim tells Aurora that her early awakening was a pod malfunction like his. Aurora, devastated that she may grow old and die on the ship before it reaches Homestead II, attempts a fruitless effort at re-entering hibernation, just as Jim once tried and failed to do. She comes to accept her situation and begins writing a book about her experiences. Jim and Aurora grow closer, becoming lovers.
A year after Aurora's awakening, Arthur unintentionally discloses Jim's responsibility for her predicament. Aurora is distraught, alternately berating, shunning, and physically attacking Jim. Soon after, however, another pod failure awakens Gus (Laurence Fishburne), a Chief Deck Officer. The three discover multiple failures in the ship's systems due to a failed component overloading other components. Gus attempts to fix it with Jim and Aurora's help, while Aurora still blames Jim, believing that his stealing her life is tantamount to murder. Gus' repair efforts are hindered by sickness, and medical tests show that that his pod's malfunctioning life support has fatally sickened him. Before dying, he gives his ID badge to Jim and Aurora to access crew areas and repair the ship, which is experiencing more severe failures daily.
The two trace a colliding asteroid's path of damage through the ship's hull from two years earlier. The collision damaged the computer which administers the reactor. Fixing the computer leads to further reactor damage. Jim realizes he must vent a fusion reactor by opening an outer vent door. Aurora assists Jim while admitting she is terrified of losing him and living on the ship alone. Aurora, from inside the ship, and Jim, outside it, successfully vent the reactor. However, Jim's tether comes loose and his damaged spacesuit is quickly losing oxygen. Aurora retrieves the unconscious Jim and resuscitates him using the Autodoc, an automated medical diagnostics and treatment pod. Jim later learns he can re-hibernate Aurora in the Autodoc. When he offers, she realizes she would never see him again.
Eighty-eight years later, the ship's passengers and crew awaken shortly before arrival on Homestead II. They discover vegetation growing all over the ship's concourse area. Aurora's completed book is found, and it is revealed that she chose to stay awake with Jim and finish writing her story.[3][4][5][6][7]
Cast
- Chris Pratt as Jim Preston, a mechanical engineer.[7]
- Jennifer Lawrence as Aurora Lane, a writer.[3]
- Michael Sheen as Arthur, a robot bartender on the Avalon.[7]
- Laurence Fishburne as Chief Gus Mancuso, the chief deck officer.
- Andy García as Captain Norris
- Aurora Perrineau as Celeste
Production
Development
Yes, it was a popular script. It’s one of those stories that really grabs you and you fall in love with it. It’s very smart and funny and clever and such a page-turner I couldn’t put it down. Every 10 pages, something new happens! At the same time, it’s a very intimate movie, while taking place on this epic scale. For me, it’s a story about what’s important to live a full life. What are the things we need as humans? It’s not afraid to entertain but at the same time it asks big questions about what does it mean to really feel happy. Every generation has its love story. I feel like this is it. I had to do it.
— Director Morten Tyldum[8]
The original script for Passengers was written by Jon Spaihts in 2007, and had been in development hell for years.[9] At one point, the film was set to star Keanu Reeves and Emily Blunt,[10] with the production budget being a relatively low $35 million.[11] Brian Kirk was originally scheduled to make his feature directorial debut with the film, with Reeves in the lead.[12][13] On December 5, 2014, it was announced that Sony Pictures Entertainment had won the auction for the rights to the film.[14] In early 2015, Morten Tyldum was chosen to helm the film.[15] Tyldum had always wanted to do a massive sci-fi action movie, but also stressed the importance of a character-driven sci-fi film, rather than a cold and distant one.[7]
Metro described its plot as bearing a resemblance to the EC Comics story 50 Girls 50, first published in the July–August 1953 issue of Weird Science,[16] in which two passengers of a colony spaceship are awoken from hibernation early and fall in love.
The cast – Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne and Aurora Perrineau – were announced between February 2015 to January 2016.[17][18][19][20][21] Lawrence was paid $20 million against 30 percent of the profit after the movie breaks even and Pratt was paid $12 million.[11][22]
Filming
This film was recorded by Sony Pictures Entertainment.[23] Principal photography on the film began in September 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia.[24][25] Filming occasionally took place for full days with a bulk of the shooting done around the two leads only. Rodrigo Prieto served as cinematographer, and Maryann Brandon was hired as film editor.[26][27]
Music
Thomas Newman composed the musical score for Passengers.[28] Spaihts said that he wrote Passengers while listening to Newman's previous scores.[29] Also, Imagine Dragons recorded a song, "Levitate", for the film's soundtrack. It was released on November 29, 2016.[30]
Release
In August 2015, Sony Pictures Entertainment set the film's release date for December 21, 2016, in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada. The film was concurrently released in 3D and RealD 3D formats,[31] with the international rollout running through Christmas and the New Year, to January 12, 2017.[32]
Box office
Passengers opened alongside Sing and Assassin's Creed, and was initially expected to gross around $50 million from 3,478 theaters over its first six days of release, although the studio was projecting a more conservative $35 million debut.[33][34] After making $1.2 million from Tuesday night previews[35] and $4.1 million on its first day, projections for the six-day opening were lowered to $27 million.[36] It went on to gross $15.1 million in its opening weekend (a six-day total of $30 million), finishing third at the box office behind Rogue One and Sing.[37]
Critical response
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 30% based on 181 reviews; the average rating is 4.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Passengers proves Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence work well together – and that even their chemistry isn't enough to overcome a fatally flawed story."[38] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 41 out of 100 based on 48 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[39] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[40]
Several reviewers have criticized the ethics of the core plot point, where Jim decides to awake one of the hibernating travelers for companionship. Rebecca Hawkes of The Telegraph described the film as not a romance but "a creepy ode to manipulation", describing it as a "central act of violence" that is softened and justified, said that the marketing team deliberately hid in the trailers the reason why Aurora wakes up, and compared it to a morally similar act in Interstellar where the perpetrator is shown as an antagonist.[41] Andrew Pulver of The Guardiancalled it an "an interstellar version of social-media stalking" and "a fantastically creepy start" that, contrary to romantic comedies that manage to "plane down" the nastiness of stalking tactics, here it’s "gruesomely inescapable".[42]
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- ^ "'Sing's' Box-Office Debut Tops 'Assassin's Creed,' 'Passengers' in Tuesday Night Previews". The Hollywood Reporter.
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