Directed by Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game; Fallen Angels; Headhunters) and starring Chris Pratt (Her; The Magnificent Seven; Jurassic World; Guardians of the Galaxy; Zero Dark Thirty), Jennifer Lawrence (Joy; The Hunger Games, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, Winter's Bone, X-Men: First Class) and Michael Sheen (Alice Through the Looking Glass; Norturnal animals; The Twilight Saga; Midnight in Paris; Blood Diamond; The Queen; The Damned United).

Science fiction, 116 mins, 12+

Science fiction films have come a long, long way since those from over 50 years ago, and some more recent, have put humans up against extra terrestrials which may have been designed by anyone at all, given a few drinks. But space travel is another thing, a sub-set of the science fiction genre, where 2001: A Space Odyssey set the tone and recent productions such as Arrival, The Martian and Gravity leading the way.

Passengers can also join this illustrious list, thanks in no small part to the incredible CGI used to portray not only space and constellations, but the spaceship, the Starship Avalon, itself.

The storyline features Jim Preston (Chris Pratt) who awakens 90 years earlier than scheduled into a 120-year voyage on the Starship Avalon to colonise a planet names Homestead 2, with 5,000 passengers and 259 crew. A passenger, he finds the crew are also in their sleep chambers in a different part of the spaceship. But he does have Arthur (Michael Sheen) for company - an android bar-tender, with whom he has conversations daily. After a year he debates on whether to wake another passenger, Aurora Lane (Jennifer Lawrence) from her sleep chamber.

But the central question in the storyline is why he was released early from his sleep chamber, where a seemingly failsafe system has malfunctioned. Solve that problem and the rest of the passengers and crew may have a chance.

One of the best and most original scenes has to be the one with the swimming pool when the gravity field fails - which way is up? While the space walk scene has been done before, and arguably better in Gravity, the tension and apprehension is quite apparent nonetheless.

A gripping sci-fi adventure; the first half of the film may seem a little slow, but the pace picks up with the action saved for the second half. Comparisons will be made with the cult tv series Red Dwarf which features a small number of people on board a large spacecraft. While Red Dwarf was comic, Passengers is a serious and dramatic film that will suck the air from your lungs on the space walks...