Review by Bob Ignizio
A spaceship filled with colonists from Earth is en route to
a new planet. The voyage will take 120 years, so the passengers and crew are
kept in suspended animation, with the ship's computer running things while they
sleep. But when a meteor gets through the shields and causes systemic damage to
the ship, one of the passengers is awakened from his slumber 90 years too soon.
This is the promising set-up for the science fiction drama PASSENGERS, directed by Morten Tyldum from a script by Jon Spaihts.
The early riser is engineer Jim Preston (Chris Pratt). Jim
quickly finds that the ship's computer is no help, and there's no way for him
to go back to sleep. He tries to make the best of things, taking advantage of
the ship's amenities and chatting with android bartender Arthur (Michael
Sheen). But after about a year of this, Jim's at the end of his rope.
