Votd How An Alternate Cut Of Passengers Makes It A Better Movie

VOTD: How An Alternate Cut Of ‘Passengers’ Makes It A Better Movie

By Ethan Anderton/April 20, 2017 6:00 am EST

Nerdwriter takes a close look at Passengers and imagines how the story would have played out in a much more interesting way if instead of following the movie from the perspective of Chris Pratt’s character Jim, we begin the movie from the viewpoint of Jennifer Lawrence’s character Aurora. It adds an entirely different feel to the first half of the movie.

Here’s Nerdwriter’s video examining how Passengers recut could have made the movie better:

Even so, rearranging the major moments in the plot only fixes part of the movie. We’re still left with a rather lackluster ending that feels like its trying to manufacture something for the characters to do, making it all feel rather contrived. As the video points out, our own Peter Sciretta proposed that a Twilight Zone-style ending putting Aurora in the same conundrum as Jim might have been more preferable, but again, doesn’t fix all of the shortcomings of the movie.

What do you think about Passengers being recut in this way? Did you like the original version? Sound off below!