Passengers

** - A crappily executed plot twist can ruin even the best of films. Luckily for 2008’s “Passengers” starring Anne Hathaway, a crappily executed plot twist that occurs around 10 or 15 minutes from the conclusion didn’t really ruin it because it was never a very good movie in the first place. The very beginning of the picture shows promise when a plane crashes and the few survivors mysteriously recall different series’ of events while in group therapy sessions. However, the next hour of the movie is dominated by a goofy romance involving one of the survivors and Hathaway – whose turn here as a psychiatric counselor once again shows that she should really probably stick to acting in lightweight garbage like “The Princess Diaries” and “The Devil Wears Prada”. During the final act it seems as though the filmmakers realized that they just tortured their audience with an hour of boredom and tried to make up for it by attempting some action and tossing in a rather obvious plot turn. I’ll give this movie two stars largely for its intriguing premise which, unfortunately, is flushed straight down the crapper after the first 20 minutes or so and doesn’t resurface for a period longer than a few minutes at any point thereafter.