Jennifer Lawrence’s sci-fi flop is on TV tonight

Jennifer Lawrence has had plenty of hits during her career, from the Oscar-winning Silver Linings Playbook to The Hunger Games saga, but she's had some notorious misses, too.

One of them is on TV tonight, in case you feel like giving it a second chance, or you just want to find out why it misfired back in 2016.

Starring Lawrence and Chris Pratt, Passengers is airing on Channel 4 at 12.35am tonight.

Don't worry if you had plans for Saturday night, it's also available to watch on Prime Video and to rent or buy on Sky, iTunes and Microsoft Store.

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The movie follows two passengers travelling on a spaceship, Jim (Pratt) and Aurora (Lawrence), who are awakened 90 years earlier than they were supposed to due to a malfunction.

Unable to return to their sleep in suspended animation, they are forced to accept their lives will end before they reach their destination. With a growing attraction between them, Jim and Aurora decide to take advantage of every luxury the ship has to offer and live as happily as possible.

However, they soon discover the ship is in grave danger, and they are the only ones who can save the lives of the 5,000 sleeping passengers on board.

Directed by Morten Tyldum (who was nominated for an Oscar for The Imitation Game) and written by Jon Spaihts (co-writer of Dune and Dune: Part Two), Passengers received numerous negative reactions in 2016.

The movie now has a 30% rating (from 289 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Columbia Pictures

In an interview with The New York Times, Jennifer Lawrence addressed the negative criticism against the movie and revealed that singer-songwriter Adele told her not to do it in the first place.

"She was like, 'I feel like space movies are the new vampire movies'. I should have listened to her," the actor joked.

In a different interview, Lawrence said she understood the criticism and was "disappointed in [herself] that [she] didn't spot it."

"I thought the script was beautiful – it was this tainted, complicated love story. It definitely wasn't a failure. I'm not embarrassed by it, by any means. This was just stuff that I wished I'd looked into deeper before jumping on."

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