The actress Chloë Grace Moretz She has been showing a special interest in the fantastic and science fiction for several years, since in a brief interval of time we have been able to see her in ‘Mother/Android’, the series ‘The Peripheral’ or ‘Hidden Passenger’, the film that we now interested. The reason is her arrival in the Amazon Prime Video catalog in Spain.
‘Hidden Passenger’ is a film that had a very short life in theaters -something motivated in part by the coronavirus pandemic-, since it was only released in a handful of countries -and Spain was not one of them-, so its worldwide revenue barely reached $1 million. For this reason, almost no one was able to see one of the greatest surprises of fantastic cinema in recent years in theaters. In it there is space for terror, science fiction and war movies without anything being out of place.
One of the obvious inspirations for ‘Hidden Passenger’ is ‘The Twilight Zone’, specifically the episode of the fifth season that also served as the basis for one of the segments of the film released in 1983. And it is that a plane trip already in itself I have is extremely complicated when a terrible creature attacks the airship.
In ‘Hidden Passenger’ we find two films for the price of one. The first focuses on the mystery surrounding Moretz’s character and how she is under a lot of pressure, something that the director Roseanne Liang He rightly emphasizes through a staging that squeezes the limited means to give an oppressive touch to the story.
With that, it would be a worthwhile proposal, but it is the fantastic component that agitates ‘Hidden Passenger’ even more by giving the film a generous dose of adrenaline that never stretches too far. Hence for the 71st minute of footage the final credits already appear.
Of course, ‘Hidden Passenger’ requires the viewer to accept a narrative logic closer to that of some crazy cartoons than one more typical of an action drama to use. The great litmus test in this regard is in its last actwhere reason is blown up for the benefit of giving a resounding closure to the story.
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