Given their beauty, that may not sound bad until you consider their future in joint isolation with nothing to do but eat, drink, make love and play shadow games with holograms.īefore its midpoint, the film begins its retreat from the moral questions raised by Jim’s selfishly dragging Aurora into his personal hell. Once outside her pod, Aurora is devastated to learn that she, like Jim, will almost certainly die en route to Homestead II.īut soon Jim and Aurora embark on a romantic courtship and quickly fall in love.
Against his better moral judgment, he revives her. Spotting the recumbent Aurora, radiant in her pod, he savors her beauty, admires her thumbnail biography and falls in love. Realizing that he faces 90 years of solitude on the spacecraft, can’t return to his hibernation pod and will never live to reach his destination, he begins to fall apart. Her awakener, Jim (Chris Pratt), is a hunky mechanical engineer who is jolted back to consciousness when an asteroid hits the Avalon and is aghast to find himself alone. The spunky, whip-smart Aurora, who bought a round-trip ticket, hopes to write the first book about Homestead II upon her return to New York.īut when Aurora is prematurely roused from a state of suspended animation, her hopes are dashed. Its destination is Homestead II, a pioneer colony of an overcrowded Earth. Lawrence’s character, Aurora, is an ambitious journalist aboard the Avalon, a commercial spacecraft making a historic 120-year voyage.
In a love story whose attempt to be an interstellar “Titanic” eventually falls flat, Ms. There is a blazing light at the center of the interplanetary romance “Passengers,” and its name is Jennifer Lawrence.
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