Chris Pratt is awake and a little cheeky in new movie

Chris Pratt at the premiere of Passengers in Los Angeles. Photo: Reuters

Be it as a cowboy in space (Guardians Of The Galaxy), a cowboy taming the dinosaurs (Jurassic World) or an actual cowboy (The Magnificent Seven), Chris Pratt sells each character to the audience, well, quite magnificently.

So, if anyone can successfully carry the first half of a film on his own, it’d be Pratt, as seen in his new flick Passengers. Directed by Morten Tyldum, Passengers tells of a spaceship heading to a distant planet, carrying over 5,000 passengers, all of whom are asleep, on the journey that will take 110 years. But something goes wrong mid-way and Pratt’s character – a blue-collar mechanical engineer named Jim Preston – is awakended 90 years too early.