I wasn't expecting much from Passengers but I like Patrick Wilson and Anne Hathaway is easy on the eyes so I decided to check this out. Unfortunately, this is another run of the mill mystery/sci fi movie that takes great ideas from other stories and tries to pile them all into the plot to pad the surprise ending. After plane crash survivors starts seeing weird occurences and are connected as part of a conspiracy, we slowly start to realize that not everything is what it seems and that the mystery of the event unfolds. For some reason I saw the ending of this movie coming from a mile away as we are supposed to feel sorry for Hathaway's character through therapy sessions and nightmares but I never felt bad for her since we think she survived. While things heat up b/w her and Wilson's character, I felt the love story seemed forced and there was never any true violence or terror happening to make her scared. By the end when we are given the realization of what actually happened, I felt that this was really the only way the story could go so it basically screwed itself by pushing the plot into a corner where all the characters are bad or die to serve the surprise ending. Overall, Hathaways was somewhat likeable and Wilson plays the nice guy well but I never felt like this movie was breaking ground or had enough surprise to warrant a positive review. Another waste of time...
No comments:
Post a Comment