"Passengers" by Morten Tyldum - not so bad as I expected - movie review

At first sight familiar story - a boy sees a girl. The boy falls in love with a girl. Just that in the cosmos during a trip in which they should not be awake. Have you confused now? What happens when you take two of the most popular young actors in Hollywood, with a good director and put Michael Sheen for balance? The answer is "Passengers", Norwegian Morten Tildum's movie with Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, and the powerful Morpheus - Laurence Fishburne. Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) wakes up 90 years earlier than planned on board the spacecraft Avalon, who traveled for 120 years to a distant colony of the Earth. A technical mistake or a complete accident is made by the only person who deliberately dwells in the ship in the company of robot-bartender Arthur (Michael Sheen) and finds various ways to entertain for one year, of course, barely succeeding in avoiding suicidal thoughts, because very early it becomes clear that there is no way to return to hibernation and reach the final destination. After all this painful and lonely time for him, it turns out that another traveler of thousands of sleeping wakes up earlier than planned. Not just any traveler, but the beautiful Aurara Lane (Jennifer Lawrence). The two passengers have no choice but to start a love story that supports them mentally and in one way or another - in their state of doom - makes them happy.

In the early minutes of the movie Chris Pratt is quite pleasing even as if alone as the only one who is awake. Actor's presence fills the screen literally and figurative, as it is nearly two feet tall. In the last few years, the roles for which they chooses him carry his positivity of life. After his brutal physical transformation for the first film of "The Guardians of the Galaxy", Hollywood puts him on a pedestal, and he absolutely deserves his place there - not just with the newly acquired tibia, but also with his behavior, humor and attitude to life. The truth is, personally, I can not imagine a better actor about Jim Preston's role or more precisely someone who has had such chemistry with Jennifer Lawrence. Jim Preston of Pratt is desperate, happy, in love, rejected, with many real emotions and behaviors, and he becomes the center of his existence in the cosmos. Jennifer Lawrence has been Hollywood's golden girl for many years now. Her collaborations with director David O. Russell and actor like Bradley Cooper usually wear her at least an Oscar nomination, and even the statuette herself a few years ago. And even though she is sometimes overrated for her roles, in life Laurence proves to be a real dude with her earthly behavior. Like Aurara Lane in "Passengers" she is very beautiful in the first place. Hardly anyone watching the movie can forget the white swimsuit that her hero floats in the pool of the spacecraft. Yes, there is a pool. There is absolutely everything but awake human presence. Aurora Lane is a strong woman with dreams and ambitions that has the self-confidence of very beautiful and intelligent as it is. In the real life beyond the ship, the two men with the ordinary mechanic Jim Preston would hardly ever meet, but they fell in love, but here they fall into a situation where they find each other. And she is magnificent in her love, her anger, and all the other emotions she goes through to him.

Morten Tyldum shook me with his previous movie. "The Imitation Game" was not just a story, it was a mission. A mission for the entire movie team who told me that the injustice against genius Alan Thuring has made them do their best to tell what happened to him. If we go back to the Norwegian filmmaker's career, we will also find the film that attracts world attention to it for the first time - the criminal thriller "Head Hunters". With all due respect to Morten Tyldum , I do not think that "Passengers" was the right choice for him. Other directors cope better with space and if he did not manage to get these two actors in the lead, then the movie would be brutally sinking. Unfortunately, cosmos is not for everyone. The film is by no means a masterpiece, but it is a pleasant journey to another world, which, though distant, retains its humanity and sincerity. In their cosmic, doomed love, the audience may very much like the heroes. And although movie critics in most cases ruin the film and tilt the scales of his world box office success, there are opinions of both poles. Some call it the Titanic among the stars - a touching and hearty story of loss and love appropriate to the generation of "Gravity," and others say that "what does not reach" Passengers "is not just the lack of surprise in the movie, but that it is doomed love story in the largest, empty mall in space. " I would rather shake my flag in the middle of these allegations. Magnificent chemistry between the two actors and yes, a simple story in which there are definitely imperfections, but they leave you with a pleasant feeling, which we often need, instead of wondering what cinematic opinion to give or what a bigger problem to find in another Hollywood blockbuster.

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