Passengers 2016 sci-fi film free streaming on YouTube, Digi Mart USA News: Actor Chris Pratt is known for rising to a challenge. He lost 60 pounds before taking on the role of Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy, and while on set for the sci-fi thriller Mercy, he requested to be strapped into an executioner’s chair for hours at a time to get into the mind of his character.
In the underrated 2016 sci-fi thriller Passengers, Pratt faces perhaps his biggest character challenge yet: the loneliness of being trapped in space. The film was released the same year that NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered orbit around Jupiter and astronaut Scott Kelly completed a record-breaking 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station.
People were excited about the future of space at the time, and Passengers earned $303.8 million worldwide during its theatrical run. Once it left theaters, however, people seemed to quietly forget about it, until now.
Passengers stars Chris Pratt as Jim Preston, a mechanical engineer, and Jennifer Lawrence as Aurora Lane, a journalist and author. They are two of the people aboard the luxury starship Avalon, which is transporting some 5,000 colonists to a new home planet that will take 120 years to reach.
Everyone is supposed to be asleep in hibernation pods until they arrive, but that would not make for a very entertaining film. Only 30 years into the voyage, Preston is awakened after an asteroid collision causes his hibernation pod to malfunction.
He spends a year in isolation aboard the ship before deciding he has had enough, and, desperate for companionship, he wakes Lane.
As the only two passengers awake aboard the spacecraft, the pair slowly fall in love. One major problem drives a wedge between them: Preston allows Lane to believe she woke up because of a malfunction in her own hibernation pod.
The film poses an interesting question to its audience: faced with a life alone in isolation, what would you do in Preston’s position? Director Morten Tyldum has said that it is “both uncomfortable and very human.” In a 2016 interview with Fandango, Tyldum explained, “I don’t think there are a lot of people that would say: ‘I would never do what Chris’ character does.’ I dare people to say it, because I think they would be lying.
I would have done it myself. It’s disturbing because we would have done the same thing.”
Tyldum also said Pratt was the “perfect choice” for the role of Preston. “He’s extraordinarily good at making the audience sympathize and empathize with him, and also put themselves in his place,” Tyldum told Fandango.
Passengers holds a 30% critics’ score and a 63% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It is now available to stream for free on YouTube.
