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Spaceflight gone wrong

Despite a unique story, Passengers is nothing more than a missed opportunity

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Passengers

Dhruv Munjal New Delhi
unfailingly be labelled as brave. And stupid. Brave, because attempting a concoction of two such momentous films takes some spunk. And stupid, because you’re unlikely to whip up a concerto grosso. You might be left with a mishmash of epic proportions instead. 

That is what precisely encumbers Passengers. Chris Pratt plays Jim Preston, a voyager on the interstellar spaceship Avalon who, along with 5,000 others, is making his way to a distant planet to start a new life. Much to Preston’s horror though, his hibernation pod malfunctions and he is crudely woken up just 30 years into a journey