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The Avalon is designed to keep its occupants asleep for the first 170-ish years of their journey - they’re in suspended animation - and then wake them up four months before landing on a new settlement, where they’ll have a fresh start.

The Avalon, in the manner of the Axiom in Pixar’s Wall-E, is more a cruise ship than anything else, carrying 5,000 passengers and crew en route to a new civilization (Earth having become overcrowded and unpleasant). In a last man on earth/survivalist fable with just a hint of class commentary, Jim Preston (Pratt), a mechanic, wakes up in his pod on the Avalon.

#JENNIFER LAWRENCE PASSENGER MOVIE MOVIE#

Movie 1: Robinson Crusoe, But in Space and With Robots There’s no way to accurately convey the issues Passengers raises without getting into some of the plot’s specifics - so if you want to go in cold, stop now. To try to understand what Passengers is getting at, and how it fails, let’s separate and dissect the three movies it comprises. Passengers has all the setup of those questions, but it seems uninterested in exploring them. That’s especially true of sci-fi, which by its nature explores big existential questions about things like the nature of humans, relationships, and societies.

They are both amusing and pretty, which is about all the movie asks of them.īut attractive and amiable do not a good movie make. Directed by Morten Tyldum ( The Imitation Game) from a screenplay by Jon Spaihts ( Doctor Strange, Prometheus, and the upcoming Mummy reboot), the movie stars not one but both of America’s sweethearts: Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence.

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