Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Robert J. Maxwell The juicy featured Anne Hathaway is a clinical psychologist assigned to do grief counseling with the survivors of an airplane crash. She is enthralled by one of them, Patrick Wilson, and has an affair with him. No special effects to speak of, little tension, evocative photography, lots of unanswered questions, and a resolution whose impact eluded me.I didn't care much for it. Hathway's psychologist should have been cashiered in graduate school. She's easily upset, shrieks readily, radiates self consciousness, and seems uncertain about herself.I didn't like her paramour either. He's TOO sure of himself and smirks too often as if aware of his own phermomones. And he's hitting on her for the first few minutes of the movie and thereafter. She gives it up after a refreshing night-time dip in some arctic waters. Verboten. Some might call it transference. I call it baloney.Andre Braugher, a fine actor, should have had more screen time.Apparently it's appealed to some viewers. You might want to check it out.

bfd21552 Remake. 'Nuf said. The acting is more than could reasonably be expected--with such a tired, thin, clinched storyline. Whoever wrote the acting credits apparently forgot to watch ANY of the shooting of even the makeup sessions. $ad! (I kept looking for the "blonde" man. I finally decided that he was the haggard, suited, balding, brown-haired man.) Not even close! Proofreading is too expensive, I guess. Again, the acting is good, even better than good, at times. I watched it twice--all the way to the copyright info. Attention to detail makes ALL the difference (think James Ivory). Garcia will get better!

Floated2 Having not much knowledge based around this film and without watching any trailers before watching, perhaps made the experience better. Passengers ins't the typical mystery thriller and is added with a twist type ending- though there are clues along the way for those whom pay close attention. Although the film is quite decent at scenes, it doesn't drag on but still isn't too great. The ending elevates the film as it caught us off guard. Although these type of endings are always there for clues, Passenger did not seem to be one in which had that somewhat type of atmosphere.

NateWatchesCoolMovies Passengers is a low key supernatural drama that came and went with little fanfare or attention back in 2008. Part of the reason for that could have been that it was marketed as a thriller, which is not so much the case. There is an eerie vibe to it, and certainly a paranormal component, but it's quieter and much closer to the chest than advertising might suggest. It wasn't reviewed very well, branded as predictable and derivative. Some of its plot devices have been used before in the past, to be sure, but I greatly enjoyed the film and loved the way in which it's story unfolds, told very well by its sturdy cast. Like Mark Pellington says, eff the people, that's why there's 31 flavors. Anne Hathaway is excellent as Claire, a grief counselor who is tasked with looking out for a handful of people who have survived a catastrophic plane crash. She's new to her profession, her eagerness laced with self doubt, yet she remains hopeful. All of a sudden, the patients in her cate begin to disappear mysteriously, and she starts to question the situation, as well as her own reality. The survivors are damaged and not fully willing to open up to her, collectively scared of some unseen threat. Claire has repeated run ins with a unknown and very distressed man (Andrew Wheeler, local vancouver actor and former teacher of mine) who has ties to the accident. It's all hush hush and quietly unsettling, until we slowly begin to realize what's actually happening, and the it changes gears and becomes very touching and thoughtful. Clea Duvall is great as one of the skeptical survivors, Patrick Wilson solid as always, and there's work from Dianne Wiest, William B. Davis, Andre Braugher and briefly David Morse. Sure, this type of story has been done to death time and time again, draining new efforts of some of their effect, but if one comes along that gets it right, tells it's story in a way that holds both my emotion and interest in its spell, I'm all ears. This one did just that.