"Part space romance, part space thriller and all space corn, Passengers is a messy and unconvincing mash-up that tries to get by on the not inconsiderable charm of stars Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt."
"Passengers is not very good. In fact, it's pretty bad."
"Stalking tactics bolstering romantic comedies are by no means new, and over the decades, film-makers have proved adept at somehow planing down real-world nastiness, but here it's gruesomely inescapable."
"There are a handful of really interesting scenes.... But for the most part Passengers is so anodyne, so frightened of the ethically troubling opportunities inherent in the setup that it just ends up feeling forgettable and silly."
"Passengers refuses to really wrestle with the compelling questions at its core, instead opting to lean on Lawrence and Pratt's collective charm to keep things ticking amiably along."
"There's only one place for Passengers to go, and once it gets there, Jon Spaihts's script runs out of gas. Tyldun handles the dialogue almost as if he were doing a stage play, but he turns out to be a blah director of spectacle; he doesn't make it dramatic."
"As sci-fi, it feels like a professionally produced hybrid that lacks its own identity. As a romance, it never fully earns your investment."
