Passengers' Ending Explained: Do Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence Survive Their Sci-Fi Romance?

passengers ending explained do Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence survive their sci-fi romance passengers is a movie that sounds like it should have been a success it boasted an original story no mean feet in Hollywood these days from John Spates who would go on to co-write both done films its director Morton tium previously helmed the Oscar nominated the imitation game it also had the distinction of uniting Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence at the height of their careers Lawrence had just w up the Hunger Games Saga while Pratt exploded onto the Blockbuster scene with Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic world but after its release passengers received mixed reviews especially concerning a plot twist that was hidden in the marketing with passengers currently Riding High on Prime video's charts it's worth looking at this twist and how it impacted the ending and not necessarily for the better what is passengers about passengers takes place in the far future as deteriorating conditions on Earth have left Humanity no choice but to flee in massive Starships for a new home the journey is said to take decades so passengers on the ships are placed in hibernation but a malfunction wakes up engineer Jim Preston Pratt 90 years ahead of schedule Jim nearly goes mad from isolation but eventually stumbles across a pod containing Aurora Lane Lawrence a successful journalist Jim wakes up Aurora telling her that her pod malfunctioned and the two start falling for each other it is an until a year later that Aurora learns the truth and to say she's devastated is putting it mildly Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence aren't the only people woken up on passengers even with Pratt and Lawrence's star power and instant chemistry despite the disturbing settings passengers UPS its Stakes when it awakens another passenger Chief deck officer Gus Manzo Lawrence Fishburn Gus reveals to Jim and Aurora that multiple collisions with asteroids not only led to him and Jim waking but damaged ship to a point where everyone on board will die since Gus has access to certain levels of the ship he intends to try and fix it but Falls ill due to his hibernation pod failing before he dies Gus gives Jim and Aurora the tools they need to access the ship including codes to the bridge passengers ends on a romantic but unearned note Jim and Aurora learned that the fusion reactors powering their ship have been heavily damaged and the only way to save the ship is to vent the reactor with passengers being a sci-fi film things go horribly wrong and Jim has to manually vent the reactor which almost kills him Aurora is able to save him and the ship is finally restored to its full power now that its reactor is repaired after being repaired in the medical Bay Jim discovers that its pod can function as an emergency hibernation unit and urges Aurora to get in so that she can awaken with the rest of the crew she chooses to spend the rest of her life with him instead and passengers closes with with the rest of the ship's inhabitants Awakening to find that Jim and Aurora lived a whole life while this would have been perfect in any other film it serves as a microcosm of pingers issues passengers is never sure what kind of movie it wanted to be the major issue with passengers other than the fact that it hides an arguably disturbing twist in its marketing is that it's never able to commit to one genre of film The CFE romance was executed far better in films like the fountain and the Matrix trilogy the Revelation that Jim woke up Aurora is handled well at first she tells him in no uncertain terms to stay away from her and he makes things worse by constantly begging her to talk to him but she eventually decides to forgive him at the end even though she'll die without seeing her family or friends a handful of reviews even pointed this out with Vox saying that it was three movies in one while time and rolling stone both felt that the movie would have been more interesting had it committed to staying with a darker tone once Jim's secret is let out but the person who probably has the most reservations about passengers is Lawrence herself during an interview with the New York Times she revealed that Adele had advised her not to sign on to the film and that she wish she had taken the singer's advice Adele told me not to do it she was like I feel like space movies are the new vampire movies I should have listened to her ultimately passengers is a movie at war with itself it might have been crafted as an epic science fiction romance but its story called called for an approach that its cast and crew might not have been up for passengers is available to stream on Prime Video in the U