The View From The Mountain

You heard of the mile high club, then just think of this as being the million miles away club.  Passengers is a science fiction film that tries hard to be an intelligent SF story, one that deals with issues more than people shooting ray guns and whatnot. And certainly, when you hire an actress the caliber of Jennifer Lawrence--an Oscar winner, no less--one would expect a degree of gritty drama to be served with this heaping pile of space opera. Yet Passengers falls way short of being anything more than a popcorn flick. That’s not necessarily a bad thing-- Passengers isn’t a horrible movie, not by any means, but in falling short of properly dealing with its storyline, it becomes just another mediocre flick. Chris Pratt, best known for his roles in Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World (both films I enjoyed immensely) co-stars here as a passenger on board what’s known as a sleeper ship. Outer space is extremely vast, and it will take many years to travel from solar ...