Review – Passengers

Never heard of this movie? Before spotting it on Netflix Instant View, I hadn’t either. At first that seemed odd. It had reasonably good production values. It had several recognizable faces, particularly Anne Hathaway in the lead. It’s a mildly entertaining tale about a psychologist trying to help victims of an airplane crash work through trauma while unraveling a mysterious cover-up surrounding the cause of the accident. Sure, the relationship between our hero and one of her patients comes across as creepy, but that’s a fairly standard, Hollywood-style confusion between “romance” and “stalking.” Unfortunately, the whole show is done in by the ending. I don’t want to blow it for anyone who might want to try watching this, so suffice it to say that “everyone on board turns out to be Hitler” would have been an only slightly less disappointing way to wrap things up. See if desperate