Passengers 2016 by AverageMansReviews

Passengers 2016 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/medical component

Storyline/Characters/Performances: in one way or another these components all go hand-in-hand; Storyline it is dull, really dull; basically we have this top of the line spaceship [The Avalon] transporting these people [5000 Colonists and 258 Crew of the Homestead Company] from Earth to Homestead II, but the journey takes 120 years so everyone has to go inside a hibernation capsule; but something goes wrong.

I can't stress how dull this film is; I mean I like science fiction films so I get where they are coming from here, I mean I get it; it is about the journey so it has very little to do with arriving at their destination. But having said that if you are going to use this form of storytelling for the love of god put a lot more of anything in it and I know this film looks at and explorers the loneliness of our lead Character/Performer of Preston/Pratt to begin with so by them doing that this way we get to experience what he is experiencing and likewise when Lane/Lawrence comes in to the film we get to experience what she is experiencing as well.

But either with these two individually being on their own or together including either Arthur/Sheen or Mancuso/Fishburn this can either become dull or generic. I mean don't get me wrong from a performance perspective they are what you expect them to be so within the parameters of their characters they do a good job with on-screen chemistry and all that in particular Arthur/Sheen [he is this android bartender] which whenever he is on screen he does break things up a little, I mean even when we have these characters/performers on screen in a paring or more this film still moves at the same pacing and the ending style to this film is not worth the 116 minutes of watching this film, because there is a massive time jump of 88 years, so we don't even get a montage or anything like this to see what happened over this timeframe? Are you serious! Not to give too much away but to be honest at the same time yes we get a little bit of narration from Lane/Lawrence and we see what they have grown and that is it. I know I have made my feelings known about this already in this review, but still come on people you can come up with better than this surely.

Art/Action: now we come to the two biggest assets to this project being it individually or going hand-in-hand; this film is a treat for the eyes be it the general outer space scenes or individually or together having our lead partnership in space suits connected to  a tether [Preston/Pratt] dealing with this situation  or tethers Preston/Pratt and Lane/Lawrence] on their first date or for a final example having issues with the gravity on The Avalon as [Lane/Lawrence] gets trapped in this swimming pool water as eventually she gets trapped in this sphere shape of swimming pool water.

So in fairness and balance it is absolutely no surprise to me that this project has Won an Award for its Art; Art Directors Guild 2017; Fantasy Film; Excellence in Production Design Award; Guy Hendrix Dyas [production designer,] David Lazan [art director,] Luke Freeborn [art director,]Gregory S. Hooper [art director,] Hugh D.G. Moody [art director,] Michael H. Ward [art director,] John Collins [art director,] Paula Loos [assistant art director,]Drew Monahan [assistant art director,] Gary Warshaw [assistant art director,] Brittany Hites [assistant art director,] Steven M. Saylor [set designer,] Trey Shaffer [graphic designer,] Kevin Kalaba [graphic designer,] Josh Nizzi [illustrator,] Ed Natividad [illustrator,] Tani Kunitake [illustrator,] Daren Dochterman [illustrator,] Tully Summers [illustrator,] Laurent Ben-Mimoun [illustrator,] Igor Knezevic [illustrator,] Richard K. Buoen [illustrator,] Collin Grant [storyboard artist,] Ray Harvie [storyboard artist,] Mark Vena [storyboard artist,] C. Scott Baker [set designer,] Robert Andrew Johnson [set designer,] Jeffrey D. McDonald [set designer,] Allen Coulter [set designer,] Josh Lusby [set designer,] Dean Wolcott [set designer,] Anshuman Prasad [set designer,] Noelle King [set designer,] Scott Herbertson [set designer,] Mark Hitchler [set designer,] Bria Kinter [set designer,] Patrick Dunn-Baker [set designer,] Karl J. Martin [set designer,] Randall D. Wilkins [set designer,] John Moredock [set designer] and Gene Serdena [set decorator;] as you can see in one way or another it took all of these people to bring the beauty of this film to life.

This film receives: 5/10, this film is mixed; in one way or another this project is either something more or less than this mark for relatively short moments, but for The majority of this film this mark is a fair representation of this film; I mean let's not forget the issues of which I have discussed in this review as well. this film title has also been Nominated for two Oscars; Academy Awards, USA 2017 Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures [Original Score] Thomas Newman. Best Achievement in Production Design Guy Hendrix Dyas [production design] & Gene Serdena [set decoration.] Either Won or Nominated this film has 13 Awards to its name.