Passengers (2008)

Not even a pretty girl can't save this one. See the picture above. That is face you will be making for an hour and a half if you go see this film.
This is basically a film that starts with one idea, throws it out, then tries to pull a fast one on you.

The story if you can call it that, is this. Anne Hathaway plays Claire comes to what appears to be a hospital and is greeted by Andre Braugher; who usually plays roles like Angels. He discloses that Claire has two masters degrees and is working on a Ph.D. We assume that he is her boss and that she is some sort of therapist. Claire meets Eric, a surviver that seems to have extraordinary knowledge about her and coming on to her at the same time.

Claire starts group therapy with the survivors and visits Eric one on one. Eric seems to be out of reality and really manipulative, which Claire dismisses as Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome(PSD). Since the audience believes that Claire know more about PSD than they do, we let it go.

The movie here tries to be a story about a therapist working with a group survivors with Hathaway doing her best on having that blank and present therapist face. Then very quickly and unconvincingly the movie turns into a cover up thriller with the airline covering up the cause of the crash. There is a creepy airline guy who is always poking his head around and antagonizing Claire. Luckily, at this time, Claire starts sleeping with Eric, after she follows him after his countless/shameless manipulations of her.

In the final act, we learn that Eric is dead. You could see it a mile away. We learn that everyone else is dead, but there is still 30 minutes left in the movie. Do you think Claire is dead?

OK, so the passengers are dead. Not sure why they are in group therapy then. The creepy guy turns out to be the pilot. Doesn't seem to make too much sense why he is antagonizing Claire. But he does carry about a briefcase with a list of the dead, which would have to been compiled after crash when, of course, he would have already been dead. But let's not let logic get in the way here. Being that spirits of the dead tend leave briefcases around, Claire finds it. Guess what? Claire's dead. You kinda suspect that five minutes into the film, because, there is a long open credits bit.

Think the movie would be done there. The audience is not that fortunate.

It is probably a safe guess that this film will not be showing on your next flight.