cookie cutter writing with characters who lack common sense.

Good movie, not the most epic film in the world but the kind of movie you want to snuggle up with at home, it's about the struggles of a couple on a 120 year trip only to find themselves awake 90 years earlier. Decisions are made, love and hatred is brewed in there loneliness as they try to figure out how to get back in to hibernation.

The whole movie prompts a sense of wonderment: at how boring, dumb and vacant it is; how it fails to give its co-stars enough to do; how the tone changes from one moment to the next; how presumably hard-headed businessmen could have sunk so much money into such a feeble script (the production values are impressive, albeit antiseptic); and, most importantly, how the script raises a crucial question of ethics, then comes up with the wrong answer.

Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

The movie’s failings come during its final act when contrivances and an adherence to big budget conventions transform Passengers into a less compelling experience than what it starts out as.

James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Note to Greek chorus of execs: Turning a space psychodrama into a “He went to Jared” commercial is pretty low, even for you.

Sara Stewart

New York Post