

All I can say was, after an intense couple of hours, the ending was a letdown.

As I walked out of the theater, I got into a discussion with several other critics and we all came up with better endings than the one that appeared on screen. Unfortunately, the script got in the way at the end. However, when a crew member (Laurence Fishburne The Matrix) also suddenly wakes early, the three of them realize the ship is malfunctioning and must figure out how to fix it before everyone on boards dies. After her initial shock wears off, she and Jim become close until his deception is ultimately revealed. Ultimately, after much internal struggle and soul searching, Jim decides to open Aurora's pod, waking her up early, too, and then pretends it was an accident. After a year of always winning at basketball, drinking himself into a stupor and trying to break down the door to the bridge, he finds himself enamored with one of the other passengers, Aurora Lane (Jennifer Lawrence Silver Lining's Playbook).

However, when one of the pods opens 90 years too early, Engineer Jim Preston (Chris Pratt Jurassic World) finds himself awake and alone with no way to go back to sleep. For 5000 passengers and 294 crew members, they will spend those 120 years in hibernation while the ship travels on auto pilot. The spaceship Avalon is on its way to Homestead II, a new planet 120 years away. Columbia Pictures' Passengers is founded on this concept and what could happen with space travel. While not completely realized yet, we will hopefully have the ability to travel and colonize other planets in the next 100 or so years. As technology has advanced in recent years, that goal seems more and more obtainable. As long as we've been looking up at the sky and stars, interstellar travel has long been a goal and dream of the human race.
