![]() ![]() Tyldun handles the dialogue almost as if he were doing a stage play, but he turns out to be a blah director of spectacle he doesn't make it dramatic. There's only one place for "Passengers" to go, and once it gets there, Jon Spaihts's script runs out of gas. Owen Gleiberman at Variety also found the execution of the interesting concept rather lackluster: Whatever the critical consensus, though, the marquee leads are sure to entice moviegoers seeking grown-up action-adventure. Yet while Passengers offers a few shrewd observations about our increasingly tech-enabled, corporatized lives, its heavy-handed mix of life-or-death exigencies and feel-good bromides finally feels like a case of more being less. Under less shiny, by-the-numbers direction, the story might have soared, or at least been more stirring. There is, at first, a thrilling what-if in Jon Spaihts' screenplay, which concocts a sort of Titanic in outer space, with dollops of "Sleeping Beauty" and Gravity thrown into the high-concept mix. Sheri Linden at The Hollywood Reporter thinks director Morten Tyldum holds the movie back: While both Pratt and Lawrence get acclaim for their performances, the consensus seems to be that their talents are wasted on a movie that never quite reaches its full potential, seemingly because director Morten Tyldum ( The Imitation Game) doesn't really know how to keep Jon Spaihts' script (which made the Black List years ago) as interesting as it should be on screen. ![]()
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