‘Passengers’ disappoints critics

It seemed like the perfect casting coup with two of the hottest young Hollywood stars, Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, working together.
However, reviews for their sci-fi romance “Passengers,” which opens in US movie theaters on Wednesday, have not been kind.
“Passengers” is the story of two people on a spaceship headed to a distant colony who wake up 90 years early. There is no way to go back to deep sleep, so they try to find ways to entertain themselves. Oscar-winner Lawrence, 26, who last year publicly attacked Hollywood’s female pay gap, was paid some $20 million for the movie, according to Hollywood trade publications, double that of Pratt, who has starred in action movies “Jurassic World” and “Guardians of the Galaxy.”
Film critics are feeling let down by the movie overall. “Passengers” has a 30-percent approval rating on review aggregator RottenTomatoes.com and has so far been overlooked in Hollywood’s awards season.
Entertainment Weekly gave the movie a D+, saying “The signs to be hopeful were all there: A pair of dependable movie stars, a bullish Oscar-season spot on the release calendar, a director (Morten Tyldum) hot off of an Oscar-nominated film.
But alas, ‘Passengers’ is not very good. In fact, it’s pretty bad.”
Nevertheless, Lawrence and Pratt enjoyed themselves, overcoming the potential downside of acting almost exclusively with each other.
“It could have been really difficult because even just strictly filming wise, there’s no escape route,” Lawrence said.

Source: Arab News