Passengers (2008)

Overrated

Better Late Then Never

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

It has been noted elsewhere that some reviews reveal some of the plot of this film, if only indirectly. I shall not do that here."Passengers" might best be described as a psychological mystery, because much is made of the psychological states of the characters. The main character, Claire (Anne Hathaway), is a counselor who works with people suffering from PTSD. She is assigned a group of plane crash survivors.Her sessions with the survivors make her more aware of her own life choices. And she feels an air of mystery surrounding the crash itself and how the airline is dealing with the aftermath.As usual, Anne Hathaway is great in her role. The entire cast is, really. Co-star Patrick Wilson--who I was unfamiliar with--is fun to watch as a quirky crash survivor who challenges Claire, making her examine herself.It is difficult to tell if some holes in the story are really just red herrings, but either way it is fun to unravel its mystery.

25,000 million budget that has next to zero special effects and is all about acting and plot like an indie flick? Did it all go to Hathaway and Wilson, a much smaller part to Wilson, please tell Jennifer that.I like moves that deal with the what existence might be like after mortality. Have researched this a lot from a lot of people dying in my life early and I like the concept. It has been written about. The theory of some just "move on" and some hang around to understand until they choose to. Apples (the world), and Oranges (the Spirit world).I thought the acting was good and I don't get the whole "I hate Anne Hathaway" thing for her career. But I haven't seen her bad movies though many if guess consider this one. Like Rachel got Married she plays her role well and shows her versatlity as an actress. The two leads carry the movie and show what is so easily passed over in life in our societal conditioning and what we are trained to be. They put this in a very good way in my opinion in this movie.Yet once again it should have been an indie flick. It made 250,000 U.S. and it's production values are one of an indy which I love when it's done right. Focusing on the characters and not a Transformers show that Americans will pay through the roof for.

This was an okay movie, with a good cast and decent performances altogether saved by the twist ending. The story idea isn't completely original, -but I can't really say where I've seen it before without giving away the twist-.Its kind of mystery/suspense/romance, following Anne Hathaway as a grief counsellor who deals with plane crash survivors. She finds herself getting deeply involved when her patients start disappearing one by one. Nice charisma between the leads Hathaway and Patrick Wilson, I also enjoyed David Morse and Andre Braugher.What I like about movies with these kinds of twists is that it makes you go back and re-examine the entire film, and the parts that either didn't make sense or were strange are suddenly a bit brilliant. I actually didn't see this one coming until the train sequence although I had had my share of WTH questions up until that point. Worth a watch.Filmed in Vancouver with shots of (Rogers sugar refinery) as somewhere dark and gloomy USA. 9/10/16

Why does this amazing movie have such a low rating? It deserves more than 10/10 stars, but don't watch it expecting something along the lines of Friday the 13th or The Ring because this movie is scary, but not a horror movie (although labeled as such). It reminds me vaguely of The Lovely Bones (2009) and it's just as effective, if not more so.Claire, a grief counselor used to working with children, finds herself waking up to get a phone call from the local hospital. A serious plane crash has occurred down on a beach and very few people survived; Claire's job is not only to help the traumatized victims but also to get to the truth of what happened. Unfortunately Arkin (David Morse) is set on his idea that the pilot made a mistake which caused the accident. Claire also finds herself a little too involved with Erik, a victim of the crash who is surprisingly happy despite the ordeal. The only thing that seems to scare him is the large dog that keeps barking outside his door.As things progress, Claire's patients begin to disappear, all but Erik, which leads her to believe that some sort of conspiracy is going on. The only two people who seem to want to help her aside from Erik, are her boss and her landlady (who later turn out to play a much larger role). Erik sees another man, dressed all in black, who he doesn't recognize. Claire doesn't know what to think anymore until Arkin, looking depressed and extremely guilty, tells her that "the pilot was tired, going through a divorce and leaving the plane in the hands of an inept co-pilot... and as he tearfully leaves, Claire opens the briefcase he has left her and discovers the horrible truth.This movie was beautiful, extremely depressing and sad but still an amazing movie to witness. In fact, it comes across for the first little while as a sappy romance between Eric and Claire, but the story and connections between all the characters is very complex when it all comes together. Eric sees his grandfather (William B. Davis' very brief appearance) and doesn't even recognize him since it was so far back that he died, and the dog outside his door turns out to be not a bad omen, but actually a forgotten friend from childhood. Norman (another victim) believes the airport to be conspiring against the victims in some corporate scandal, but really it's a forgotten relative who has come to help him along. Another victim,Shannon, her dead parents come to find her, and as for Claire, everyone she's seen since the plane crash is her to help her, people she'd forgotten but who made an impact on her life years back.I loved Passengers, it deserves way higher than just a current 5.8/10! With brilliant acting from actors/actresses such as Anne Hathaway (The Cat Returns and Ella Enchanted), Patrick Wilson (Insidious and The Conjuring), David Morse (The Green Mile), William B. Davis (The X-Files, The Killing Moon) and Andre Braugher (The Mist, City of Angels) among other great actors, eerie and beautiful soundtrack and an original plot that really makes you think afterwards unlike most movies these days, Passengers is one I highly recommend and hopefully its ratings will improve.