Passengers – 2008

Passengers is a somewhat slow starting film which doesn’t really know what it wanted to be, a love story, a thriller or a conspiracy drama. A grief counselor (Hathaway) helps a group of plane crash survivors come to terms with their ordeal, but their pain is not as clear cut as it seems.

The script is loose and while the story is solid in some areas it falls flat in others, acting wise it’s OK there is some good on screen chemistry between Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson but the talents of Dianne Wiest and David Morse seem lost.

Passengers needs time to get going, but it certainly gets better as the story is slowly unraveled and the slightly bizarre twist just gets it over the line from being a total flop.

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Rating: (3/5)

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DVD Extras: Commentary With Director Rodrigo Garcia And Star Patrick Wilson; Deleted Scenes; Featurettes: The Manifest And Making Of Passengers; Analysis Of The Plane Crash.

Blu-ray Extras: Audio Commentary: Relaxed and revealing, director Rodrigo Garcia and actor Patrick Wilson’s deliver a solid discussion that explores Christensen’s original script, In the Night Sky featurette, Analysis of the Plane Crash and deleted scenes.

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