![]() During that portion of the film, Laurence Fishburne gets a rushed cameo as a newly-awoken crew member who swiftly finds he has two hours to live, while the psychological drama of the movie's first half gives rise to an action movie full of disconnected set pieces, contrived plot turns and half-baked fictional science. Jim then sacrifices himself to vent a build-up of reactor energy in the spaceship, caused by the meteorite that caused him to wake up in the first place - only to be saved and resurrected by Aurora, which he repays by offering her the chance to go back to sleep, before she instead opts to stay with him. The worst part, however, is Passengers' third act. In fact, the whole movie feels like a better idea sterilized to better tap into its leads' respective fanbases. Pratt's performance is up to scratch, but Lawrence's turn is lacking - and director Morten Tyldum never quite gets into the mental impact of Jim (Pratt) being alone for a year on a spaceship, nor the true moral complexities of his decision to wake up fellow passenger Aurora (Lawrence). Passengers isn't a worthy addition to the sci-fi genre’s cerebral wave that we’ve seen over the past few years - failing to hold a candle next to Gravity, Interstellar, The Martian and Arrival - and at points feels like a derivative version of other recent sci-fi offerings. I personally would have liked to have seen them both find a way back into a sleep pod, then it ends with the crew having landed, having established the new colony, and perhaps shows Lawrence and Pratt "starting over" or something.Sadly, it’s also a massive waste of potential. I don't have a major issue with the way the movie ended. How would you have ended the movie to make it better? It was only because they had to work together to save the ship and crew, and because he was willing to give his life to save them all, and because he turned the medical pod into a sleep pod that would have let her fulfill her dream of making it to the new colony, that she forgave him for what he had done.Īnd you didn't even answer /u/d33chmo's question. ![]() When she found out, she abandoned him, shunned him, slapped him around, almost killed him in the heat of passion, and wanted nothing to do with him. He wasn't "let right off the hook" for what he did. Well for one it shouldn't let Pratt's character right off the hook for what he did, Kinda nice having one that isn't complete gloom and doom. Most of the time when there's a movie that has anything to do with space, it's a horror story. ![]() Still, I liked it and have watched it several times. It's a story that could have gone all sorts of ways. I guess she could have awoken the head of security and gotten him thrown in the brig but. ![]() But really, what consequences would there have been? If she didn't do anything, and he didn't off himself, there was nobody else around to do anything to him. He got very lucky that things turned out as they did. He did a really shit thing! An unconscionably shit thing. Or maybe he should have been the victim of bad karma? Maybe so. So, in effect, he actually saved her life. Also, if you think about it, they both would have died, as well as the other 5000 people, if there hadn't been 2 people awake to fix the ship. Yeah, she did eventually forgive him, which maybe seemed a little quick, but it was over the course of weeks. Of course, then she would have been the one all alone, and probably would have ended up dead, too. When she was about to bash him with a blunt object, he lowered his guard and basically said yeah, I've got it coming, go ahead, you've got the right. he was actually going to let her do that, if you watched, the scene where she attacks him, closely. So, what should have happened to Pratt? Put him in jail? The space police are a long way away and no matter what, will be completely ignorant of what he did for 20 years, give or take, and be completely incapable of actually doing anything about it for a few decades more.
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