"still provides entertainment and visibly speaking is a well made product, the great cast's performance can't completely save a film that mixed together too many genres and is filled with common clichés"

Set in the future, Passengers is the most recent dystopian movie that uses a mix of comedy, action, romance and drama to entertain the audience, but, in the long run doesn't seem to make it quite work. Written by Jon Spaihts and directed by Morten Tyldum, Passengers is fully developed into an enormous spacecraft; the Starship Avalon, traveling towards Homestead II, a new planet ready to be colonised by humans.

The journey is supposed to last 120 years with the 5000 passengers and the 358 crew members all hibernated until the very last 4 months of the voyage, when, because of a malfunction on the spacecraft, Jim, an engineer looking for a new life, wakes up 90 years before the right time. After him, another passenger, Aurora, is awoken. Both of them try to live their lives in this never stopping spacecraft by getting to know each other. Unfortunately, there is a reason why Jim's capsule malfunctioned and the problem is causing several failures on the spacecraft, endangering the couple and unaware passengers.

From the small details it is clear that in Passengers all the already seen, already loved and appreciated themes are there. Unfortunately, all these topics are used in different movies, while here we find them all tangled in the same film.

The need for companionship, the survival instinct to protect everybody, even if they are sleeping bodies hibernated, the heroic sacrifice as well as the lover's ultimate betrayal of not telling the truth are portrayed in this dystopic reality, making the story a mix of clichés.

Even though the content is not so original and all these genres together create a tangled mess, the cinematography, as well as the cast are still capable of lifting up the film and making it still entertaining for the audience.

The CGI is outstanding. The design of the starship is stunning and elegant to highlight the kind of technological level reached by mankind. However in its perfection there is still the human factor to be considered. In this scenario, we still haven't learned how to save our planet and instead of working on it, we colonised new worlds in the hope of starting fresh,. Therefore the Avalon, in its entirety, becomes the physical representation of modern society thriving for perfection but still deeply flawed.

Although the spacecraft is filled with people, the main cast is reduced to the two protagonists, a bartender android and one member of the crew. Both Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt are committed to their roles, they were able to embrace all the different genres of the movie and still give justice to their characters. Lawrence's Aurora is strong, charismatic, determined and full of hope.

Pratt's character has strong will power but still can't bear loneliness. When it's the moment to step up and save everybody, however, he doesn't shy away from his responsibilities and he is ready to sacrifice himself, showcasing the kind of heroism every action movie character possesses. Both actors work together with great passion and their chemistry was pretty good thanks to their open and honest personalities.

As usual Michael Sheen proved once again how he can interpret any role in the book by losing himself completely in his character and becoming a humanoid programmed to tend to the passengers and mimicking that sort of therapeutical service every bartender is believed to perform.

Unfortunately, because of different genres clashing and mixing together, Passengers fells longer than it actually is and the cathartic moment that leads to the final solution is given by Laurence Fishburne's cameo as one of the crew members. His character only serves the purpose of moving the film forward towards the resolution and to engage the two protagonists in order to push them to save everybody, even if they are doomed.

Even though Passengers still provides entertainment and visibly speaking is a well made product, the great cast's performance can't completely save a film that mixed together too many genres and is filled with common clichés.