Passengers: DVD Review

Passengers: DVD Review

Passengers
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, David Morse
Roadshow Entertainment
Rating: M
Anne Hathaway stars in this psychodrama about Claire a therapist who is called in to help five survivors of an horrific plane crash deal with the fall out.
But as she works with them, she's drawn to one of the survivors, Eric, who's coping with the flight by being unnaturally happy and blessed with joie de vivre.
As Claire grows closer to Eric, their relationship goes from the professional to the personal - however, her investigation into the crash causes ruptions with the airline and she's urged to drop it.
As she delves deeper into what actually happened, one by one the five survivors begin to disappear - but this does nothing to dampen her resolve to discover exactly what happened.
Passengers is somewhat of a mess of a film; mercifully short and bound up by a twist which renders part of the earlier plot incomprehensible.
While Hathaway's good as Claire and Patrick Wilson is passable as Eric, neither of them can pull themselves out of the mire of a film which is predictable and flawed. The so called shocking twist can be seen a mile off - and even though the actual plane crash itself isn't too badly done, the emotional journey is perhaps not one of the most involving.
Extras: Deleted Scenes; Director and Cast Commentary; In the Night Sky - The Making and Manifest of Passengers; Analysis of the Plane Crash

Rating 3/10