![]() No one is supposed to wake up before then but a particularly nasty asteroid smacks one side and up pops Pratt as Jim Preston, an engineer looking for a new life - and a new love - in a new world. The setting is a giant starship, the Avalon, carrying 5,000 passengers in suspended animation who will open their eyes after 120 years to find themselves on a fresh, green, unsullied planet where they and their fellow humans can begin again. I know that sounds fatal, but hear me out. But not so sad that I can’t make a case for the movie in general and Lawrence - who acts her heart out - in particular. Often filmmakers will box themselves into corners and find that there’s no way out except by breaking through a wall that they’ve erected themselves. ![]() The mega-budget sci-fi thriller romance Passengers, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, is shaping up to be one of the most critically razzed movies of the year, but I was on its side and then some until its bummer of an ending. ![]() Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt in Passengers.
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