#Jennifer lawrence passenger movie movie#

Like Bill Murray wooing Andie MacDowell through trial-and-error in Groundhog Day, Jim has all the time he needs to become an Aurora expert (although Andie MacDowell was allegedly conscious in that movie). She's a writer - a crummy one, to judge by a sample she will later pronounce 'some of the best work I've ever done.' Undeterred, he reads her entire bibliography. Because Jim is played by Chris Pratt-who is handsome and charming but cannot convey doubt or fear-his existential pickle registers merely on a comic level.Īfter exhausting himself trying to break into the ship's bridge (the crew are all asleep, too) and beating back thoughts of suicide, Jim spies a sleeping beauty named Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence) in her pod.

#Jennifer lawrence passenger movie movie#

Returning to stasis is impossible, so he finds himself in a weird inverse of Matt Damon's dilemma in The Martian: With shelter and sustenance enough to die an old man, but condemned to run out the decades confined to a space Hilton with only a bromide-spouting robot bartender (Michael Sheen, winking his way into the Movie Android Hall of Fame) for company. The premise is marvelous: Jim, one of 5,000 pilgrims hibernating through the 120-year trip to the corporate settlement planet Homestead II, wakes up 90 years early when his cryo-pod breaks down. Passengers, a fairy tale set aboard a luxury spaceliner, has billion-dollar ideas and five-cent guts. A Wake-Up Call Comes 90 Years Early: Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt in Passengers.