Passengers (2016)

Alex - Passengers… a classic example of Hollywood rubbish that’s put out every year.  The sci-fi fluff piece stars Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, two actors that are easy on the eyes.  The script is poorly written and requires the audience to suspend their disbelief too many times. The film brings up an interesting moral dilemma (I won’t spoil it), but fumbles it throughout the rest of the movie to the point where the audience is forced to cheer the stars on as they handle one mishap on the spaceship after another.  By the end of the film, I was hoping the two characters would die along with the ship.  Only saving grace is Jennifer Lawrence is quite pretty in the film.  3/10

Nick - After reading Alex's review and hearing multiple negative comments about this movie, I went in with lowest expectations possible. In fact I was excited to make fun of this movie with friends. Then the unexpected occurred.. I started to enjoy this movie. Then I started to really enjoy the movie. Then I started to not enjoy it. The very end is left to be desired but it opens up solid and I was thoroughly invested in Chris Pratts character and I was surprising myself about how much I wanted to see what was to happen next. The movie entertained me, I was entertained. J.law was beautiful and that's always a plus. 7/10

Ally - I love me some space sci-fi movies. I love the immensity of space, the amount of time it takes to travel through space, the idea of cryo-sleep and waking up in a completely different time. This movie has the makings of something I would love, but it has also been done several times. Still, I wanted to see it despite the negative reviews. The first 2/3rds of this movie are really interesting and entertaining to me. I loved the set design and the chemistry between the main characters. The last third and especially the very end were very meh. It was a classic convenient, everything works out just right somehow, happy ending. Predictable but not very interesting. I'd watch this move again though, just cuz. 6.7/10

Phil - "What?", "What?", "I hate being lonely", "Do you trust me?", "You're a robot, you don't have feelings." If you find these kinds of lines exciting, Passengers will repeatedly thrill and delight you. 

It also has you covered if you love excruciating paragraphs of sci-fi exposition delivered as dialogue. 

Some of the lines in Passengers actually made me wince and look over at more interesting walls in the theater. Thankfully the movie avoids tragedy by also making the story stupid: "We can freeze and dethaw people for space travel. We didn't bring freezers though, only dethawers because dethawers are failproof. Did I mention we also brought replacement parts for everything? It's just a precaution in case anything fails... except the dethawers, did I mention they were failproof? WHAAT? ONE OF THEM FAIILLEED???!!" This and so many other dumb and poorly thought out contrivances just scream "This is my first movie!" The score happily keeps with this tone by constantly fumbling and tripping over it's own laces with awkward rises and falls and painfully naive attempts at electronic music. Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence do their best to salvage their roles in spite of a movie that is firing on exactly 0 cylinders, and surprisingly they 

sometimes succeed. But by momentarily relieving the pain of watching Passengers with glimpses of the breathtaking movie it could have been, it only hurts that much more to have to sink back into the muck. This is a movie and it's better than Birdemic. 3 / 10