Many have raved on and on about the movie The Passengers. I’ll admit that I was one of those people. That is, until I actually watched it. I, along with many others, got my hopes up for no reason.

Now, Passengers wasn’t particularly bad in any way, it was just…mediocre. The movie came out in December 2016 and I went to see it shortly after it was released.

The movie is basically about passengers on a space ship named Avalon that is on a 120 year journey through space to inhabit a new planet. However, one passenger’s sleeping pod (which is a futuristic device used to keep the passengers aboard the ship asleep throughout the journey) malfunctioned and woke him up 90 years too early. The passenger, James, or Jimmy as he likes to be called, spends a year alone on the ship, his only companion a robot bartender that only gives him generic responses.

After spending that year alone, he decides to wake up another passenger named Aurora, who he made believe that her pod malfunctioned as well. Eventually, Aurora finds out that he woke her up and she ignores him until the ship starts malfunctioning which they fix. Using the medical center, they find only one hibernation pod and have a choice to make; one of them can wake up with the rest of the ship and the other dies alone or they can live together and make a life with one another. You’ll have to watch to find out what they chose but at this point, who cares.

Now, the reason I dislike the movie isn’t because of the plot as much as it is the execution of it. I think the acting and casting could have executed much better, as some of the acting did not seem believable to me. But, I may be biased because I personally do not like the actors who play the two main characters in the story.

Overall, I wouldn’t recommend seeing the movie as it is completely underwhelming and, in my opinion, a waste of money.