![]() Doesn’t matter, though the chamber lights up and opens, and its inhabitant takes a breath before being “discharged.” For instance, there’s a notification of power being “diverted to the main shield” during some sort of a meteor shower, followed by a “collision alert.”Īnd then there’s the fateful “repairing fusion reactor” blinking light on Pod 1498. Since there’s nary a conscious character to be found, most of the film’s early happenings are conveyed via alerts and warnings on computer monitors. ![]() On board are 258 crew members and 5,000 passengers, all in hyperbaric chambers pulling a Rip Van Winkle (and then some), as the journey to this destination will take a staggering 120 years. All’s quiet on the floating front as we see the empty halls and command bridge a status update reveals the ship is on autopilot. The idea seems simple enough: The Starship Avalon is twisting through the blackness of space en route to the colony world Homestead II. The preview for “Passengers” had me all giddy because a) it stars Chris Pratt, and b) it looks like an intriguing and dramatic cosmic adventure filled with all kinds of crazy action and potential mystery: “There’s a reason we woke up early,” Pratt’s character says in one early trailer.īut I never heard that line in the actual movie (insert side-eye). ![]() Seems logical that a movie set in the farthest reaches of space and starring - almost exclusively - two of Hollywood’s biggest names would essentially be a license to print money, right?
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