Review of Passengers

Passengers (2008)
6/10
Deny the passengers...
16 August 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Watchable little 90 minute thriller which takes too much from "Unbreakable" and particularly "The 6ixth Sense" so that it's big twist is too predictable to cause surprise by the time it's finally delivered.

That's really about it folks, the acting is okay, I guess, although Ann Hathaway's resemblance to a young Julie Hagerty is even more pointed given the aeroplane background to the plot. Patrick Wilson is a touch insipid as the love interest and David Morse gives us the usual "quiet conviction" piece he's been playing ever since "St Elsewhere".

The notion that there may be past-life avatars on the "other side" waiting to welcome our departing spirits is mildly interesting and I suppose if you're spiritually minded, in some way re-assuring. The big plane crash to be fair didn't really shake me out of my seat the way I think it was intended to though.

As I said there's not much to say positive or negative about this feature although I repeat that anyone even remotely familiar with the plot of the genuinely arresting and original "6ixth Sense" might as well not bother.
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