Rating: Full

 

Cast: Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne and Andy Garcia

 

Director: Morten Tyldum

 

Writer: Jon Spaihts

 

Producers: Neal H. Moritz, Stephen Hamel, Michael Maher and Ori Marmur

 

Music by: Thomas Newman

 

Oscar Nominations:

 

Oscar Wins: 0

 

Rated: PG-13 for sexuality, nudity and action/peril

 

Release date:

-Theaters: 12/21/16

-Digital: 03/07/17

-DVD/Blu-Ray: 03/14/17

 

Favorite Character: Jim Preston

 

Tagline: Nothing Happens By Accident

 

Quote: “We were woken too soon… Ninety years too soon.”- Jim Preston

 

Fun Facts: The third act from the movie is quite different from the original screenplay written by Jon Spaihts, in which a moribund Gus commits suicide by shooting himself into space, then Jim and Aurora have to contain the ship’s damage. Jim never dies, but the 5,000 hibernation pods are ejected (Jim explains: “The hibernation system rebooted. It thinks the ship’s in port. It’s ejecting the empty pods.” Aurora (horrified): “They’re not empty.”). In the final scene, the ship arrives in Homestead II (88 years later) and out of it comes Jim and Aurora’s descendants.

 

The screenplay for this film was featured in the 2007 Blacklist; a list of the “most liked” unmade scripts of the year.

 

In Jim’s room you can see the brand sign (logo) of Village Roadshow Pictures as part of the decorations inside the room. Specifically, the stairway leading to his bed is vaguely in the shape of the logo.

 

Despite being billed fifth, Andy Garcia has approximately fifteen seconds of screen time, and no lines whatsoever.

 

Summary: Two passengers of the spaceship traveling to the distant earth-like planet, woke up 90 years early, little they did know that something was really wrong with the ship.

 

The Review: First Gravity, then Interstellar, then The Martian, now, Passengers. We are living in the age of great space movies (besides the 60’s and 70’s). The story could use more of the story but the visuals are technically what we want.