This is a rather interesting film to look at, given that it was released last year and panned by critics it seems. But more so, it’s up for two Oscars; Best Original Score and Best Production Design. Not exactly a massive endorsement for it’s acting, story or anything else is it? So is it as bad as the people who do this type of thing for a living say?

The main complaints seem to be about for the most part, the film is dull and the story has more holes in it than my underpants. But is it really that bad? After all, I had some real bile build up for Gold at the beginning of February.

Our story begins aboard the starship twirly-thing, which is transporting over 5,000 colonists to the planet Homestead II. This journey apparently will take everyone 120 years, so the entire human population is in cryogenic stasis. Perhaps this is the Ryanair version of space travel and Emirates has Warp Drive or something?

But brown stuff hits the oscillating device as the ship passes through a large asteroid field, the ship’s shield breaks down enough to wake up one passenger. That passenger is mechanical engineer Jim Preston (Chris Pratt), and at first he’s wondering where everyone is aboard the twirly-thing. Then it becomes clear that he’s up 90 years too soon and basically his life is over. He will die aboard that ship.

Bit of a bummer, got to be honest.

After a year of bumming around, doing not a lot and to be fair growing a really large beard, and not really having fun with Arthur (The rbot bar bloke played by Michael Sheen) our pal Jim contemplates ending it all, though surely that wouldn’t happen because the film would end too early. One day he notices Jennifer Lawrence in deep sleep and starts stalking everything about her. Probably for the same reason everyone took to the internet the moment people found out her IPhotos got hacked. Eep.

But if ol Jim wakes her up, well she’s condemned to die on the ship too. Clearly after a while, he thinks “F**k it” and wakes her up. After she’s upset at her fate, her and Jim do indeed start getting it on and all is well and stuff. Even to the point Jim can get better food from the dispenser because she paid more for her ticket. But oh dear, Jennifer Lawrence doesn’t know that Jim lied to her about why she woke up. And tells Arthur not to tell her the truth. Cos otherwise, he loses access to her lady parts and Jim doesn’t want that of course.

Hello, would you have sex with me? Yes…. Yes I would space lady.

But time passes and as well as the truth coming out (along with a surprise appearance from a certain someone I didn’t expect) which leads to meh occurring on board the starship Titanic, the tale takes a turn for the worse and actually has one of the biggest wtf moments in terms of storytelling towards the end. Seriously, there will be unanswered questions here people.

But as for the film itself, it wasn’t that bad, it was perhaps missold. Why do I say that? Well the trailer for Passengers shows off a sci-fi space adventure with all sorts of stuff going wrong. But that really only made up a bit of the film towards the end. What it was really about was what happens to people when placed in a bad situation and how they react to one another as time goes on and of course as circumstances change. The pace of the film is slow and at times, it can feel like it’s being dragged out far too much.

The acting wasn’t too bad, and we got some mild sexy scenes which is always a bonus 🙂 It was enjoyable sure, but maybe not something I would bother to watch again, especially with the mushiness of the ending and the feeling that a certain someone appeared at the end as just to pay off their new swimming pool. The reason Jim woke up too was just chance as well, whereas Jennifer Lawrence woke up because Jim detected hotness with his special tricorder. In his pants. I’m basically saying his dick killed her.

Would I say watch this? Yeah, it’s harmless and as long as you are fine with a slow pace of a film with a kind of a duff ending, then grand.