Despite two bankable stars in the leads and a big sci-fi budget, the Passengers ending chose a controversial way to resolve its big twist. 

Passengers revolves around mechanical engineer Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) and journalist Aurora Lane (Jennifer Lawrence), 

two passengers aboard a spaceship traveling to a distant planet who’re awakened from their hibernation pods 90 years too early. 

On the empty ship, knowing they will be dead long before the rest of the crew wakes up, the two characters make a new life and fall in love. However, there is a darker twist to the story.

The twist, which the film’s trailers didn’t reveal, is that Jim actually awakens Aurora after his own pod malfunctions 

and he’s unable to bear the idea of living out the rest of his life in isolation, save for the ship’s android barman Arthur (Michael Sheen). 

While there are scenes of Chris Pratt’s Jim and Jennifer Lawrence’s Aurora having great chemistry and having fun together, there is the truth about what he did that will eventually come out. When it does, the way Passengers’ ending dealt with it raised a lot of controversy among audiences.

With the threat of Jim’s terrible secret being revealed lingering over the entire movie, it finally happens in the questionable third act when Arthur casually reveals to Aurora what Jim did. Although she’s naturally angry with Jim and attempts to avoid contact with him as they share the ship, Aurora has to put those feelings aside when the entire ship is put in danger. The two learn the ship is suffering from multiple system failures as a result of an asteroid collision (the same one that led to Jim’s pod malfunctioning in the first place) and they have to repair the vessel before it’s too late.

Jim makes a heroic and dangerous attempt to save the ship, succeeding and nearly dying in the process but Aurora manages to rescue him. With the catastrophe avoided, Jim reveals that he has found a way to put Aurora back into hibernation for the remainder of the journey but it would mean he has to remain awake and alone. However, rather than bidding farewell to Jim forever, Aurora chooses to stay with him and the pair live out the remainder of their lives on the ship together.

 Follow us to see more useful information, as well as to give us more motivation to update more useful information for you.

Source: Los Angeles Times