“Lay some bartender wisdom on me,” Jim implores Arthur at one point. Can Jim and Aurora right the ship-and realign their own stars? He pays attention to small details and never lets his “big” space movie get overrun and overblown with special effects.Īnother big-name star, also awoken early by a system malfunction, makes a late appearance, mainly to sound the alarm that things have really taken a turn for the worse. Norwegian director Morten Tyldum, nominated for an Oscar for The Imitation Game, creates a space-station world, and an atmosphere, that feels like a cross-pollination of a Carnival Cruise, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Robinson Crusoe and The Twilight Zone. She gets trapped in a big, floating water “bubble” when the ship’s artificial gravity goes out. Aurora and Jim walk among the stars-a big-ticket “shore excursion”-and make out in spacesuits. Things get better for Jim, then worse-much worse. There’s a genuinely creepy, unnerving nugget of a tale-of obsession, desperation and survival-in Passengers about what might happen under the futuristic circumstances it depicts, but it mostly gets lost in the sweet, sci-fi mush-and rush-of its intergalactic romance. But the movie itself is powered by two of Hollywood’s hottest, most likeable, bankable stars, and the film’s storyline bends around them and the heat they generate. The starship in Passengers runs on a whirring nuclear reactor. What she doesn’t know can’t hurt her, right? Right? Weighing the moral and ethical considerations against his own crushing loneliness, Jim eventually makes the decision to rouse Aurora from her hibernation-without telling her he did so. But he’s smitten when he catches a glimpse of one of the other hibernating passengers, a writer named Aurora Lane (Jennifer Lawrence). He finds a “companion” in the lounge’s android bartender, Arthur (Michael Sheen from TV’s Masters of Sex). Jim at first explores the ship and avails himself of all its amenities (holographic dance-offs, no lines in the food court, great robotic restaurant service). Michael Sheen is android bartender Arthur.
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