Rogelio Hernandez

It is always amazing to me to see when professional critiques miss the mark. This is a modern movie about the excruciating complications of personal relationships in the context of how we live our daily existence. Only a cynic or a person who has never experienced heartache could understand what it takes to choose joy and happiness over guilt and pain. Ethics and morality over power, financial success, and instant gratification. Of course the acting is on point, the silent men scene is one for the ages, and the angry scream of Alec Baldwin on a certain point in the movie was just hilarious. And who can stop smiling when one watches the gorgeous Emma Stone, and Rachel Adams sharing the marquee. Emma is possible one of the best actresses currently out there, and Rachel is always a joy to enjoy. Listen not to the critics, give this beautiful piece a chance. Introspect on your own challenges, and I promise this movie will stick to you for a long time.

I wish I understood why the professional critics of various publications rate this movie so terribly. In a world where Star Wars commands an unprecedented fan base and the subsequent financial windfall, Passengers is a wonderful Romantic Sci Fi film that not only presents a series of life paradigms in an elegant and entertaining manner, but also entertains and lets the imagination fly free of the clutter of over marketization. Passengers is a carnival of what ifs. It allows one to turn to the one we love and ask the question… “what would you do if I stranded you in paradise with me for eternity?” and this conundrum is very well elaborated in this movie. The principal question is, you get to live with no need to work ever again, with all the food, shelter and resources that you will ever need, but you get to be with just one person for the rest of your life, and within the confines of a demarcation. If you ask me, I would love to be woken in such a situation, even if it meant to lose everything that today I hold dear and near, the only requirement for me is to be woken by someone that will love me more than I love myself. The effects are what is expected of a big budget modern movie, they are simply superb, the acting is more than I would have expected from Chris Pratt, in fact this movie makes me respect him as a serious actor, and of course Jennifer Lawrence is a delight in every respect of the word. But to me the top acting was that of Michael Sheen, his personification of the most excellent Bartender one could ever hope to find invites you to revisit those days where men were proud to be gentlemen. In a word, invites the common person to be better. Less we all learn to be as great listeners and friends as this portrayed android is, wouldn’t the world be a far better place? By the time of my review, this movie is “old” but worry not about investing the time to enjoy it. It forms part of my private collection, a movie that I will enjoy with my daughters when they turn the appropriate age, and then… I will issue the question…what do you think? What would you do?