Space Cadets in Love in “Passengers”
By Skip Sheffield
Is there another actress working today hotter than Jennifer
Lawrence? I can’t think of one.
In “Passengers” Lawrence manages look sexy even in a space
suit. “Passengers” is set in outer space, but it is basically a boy-meets-girl
love story. The boy is James Preston, played by Chris Pratt. James is one of
258 crew members aboard the Starship Avalon. The girl is Aurora Lane, played by
Jennifer Lawrence.
Due to some unspecified malfunction, Jim awakes from his
sleeping pod with 90 years yet to go on the 120-year flight to Homestead Colony
to start a new life with more than 5,000 passengers. Don’t ask the specifics on
how a body can be kept alive in suspended animation for 120 years. Screenwriter
Jon Spaihts (“Prometheus”) provides no answers. Nor should you question how a
luxuriously appointed giant spacecraft could indefinitely provide gourmet food
and an open bar tended by a friendly robot named Arthur (Michael Sheen). Just
go with it and you will better enjoy the ride.
Jim understandably gets lonely, so he wakes up Aurora from
her pod. So begins a (space) shipboard romance between two exceedingly
attractive people. When Aurora learns Jim deliberately released her from her
pod, she is none too pleased.
As with all spaceship journeys, malfunctions develop. Enter
Laurence Fishburne as Capt. Gus Mancuso, furrowing his brow mightily.
I have enjoyed outer space science fiction movies since I
was a child. You don’t go to them for credibility or believability. You go for
the look and the thrill. Norwegian director Marten Tyldum has provided both,
with the added bonus of the sexiest space cadet around, Jennifer Lawrence.
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