Widely consideredJennifer Lawrence’s worst film,Passengersis surprisingly one of the most popular movies on Prime Video right now – and it’s receiving quite a bit of hilarious feedback from users onLetterboxd. While many reviewers on the social platform have given it a one-star review,Rotten Tomatoes holds a critics' rating of 30% based on over 200 reviews. The film also received a Metacritic score of 41 out of 100 based on reviews from 48 critics.
Passengers
Released in 2016,Passengerswas directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Jon Spaihts.Jennifer Lawrence takes the lead alongside Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, and Andy Garcia.
Passengersisset in a futuristic worldon a sleeper ship that is transporting 5,000 colonists in hibernation pods to planet Homestead II. Due to the collapse of the Earth’s biosphere, to save humanity, the passengers must take a 120-year journey to a new planet. However, things are soon set off course after just 30 years into this journey when an asteroid collision damages the ship, resulting in a malfunction that causes passenger Jim Preston (Pratt) to awaken.
Devastated that he has to live out the rest of his life on the ship, Jim decides to awaken a beautiful woman named Aurora Lane (Lawrence) to act as his companion. Rather than telling her the truth, he lies to her and tells her that she has awoken due to a malfunction as well. However, it’s only a matter of time before Aurora discovers the real truth.
Although she’s upset at first, she and Jim make the best of the situation and begin to fall in love. A writer and journalist, Aurora records her story of living life on theAvalonship, leaving a legacy for the other passengers to discover after awakening.
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Despite largely negative reviews from critics,Passengerswas nominated for Best Production Design and Best Original Score at the 89th Academy Awards.Lawrence has since said sheregrets taking on big-budget films likePassengersandThe Hunger Games.
“Everything was like a rebound effect. I was reacting, rather than just acting,“Lawrence told theNew York Times. She also added thatbig-budget filmslikePassengersmade her feel like her creativity and imagination were “cut off.”
Passengers Is Still Getting Negative Reviews, Eight Years Later
Sinceso many people are watchingPassengersright now, we decided to take a look at the Letterboxd reviews to see what they think of this 2016 flop. One user sums up the film as “me and bae on a spacewalk (she doesn’t know I ruined her life because I was bored and she looked so good in her hibernation pod).” Another writes, “F*** this Temu a** spaceship. You’re telling me there was no protocol put in place in the instance someone’s pod malfunctioned?”
Contrary to the one-star reviews, another user offered constructive criticism and said, “Carried by a strong first half of the movie and amazing chemistry, but a lackluster ending drags it down.”
