"Without emplacing too many turn-ups for the books, THE PASSENGER earnestly invests its time and attention in carving out Randy's new-found confidence in dissuading Benson from doing something irrational and violent. There are moments when it seems they can be quite a perfect fit because each is beneficent to the other, and maybe, a new lease on life can be granted even to a mortal sinner like Benson. Such fancy is punctured when a facile, workaday suicide-by-cop solution transpires in the end, and we still have no inkling what makes Benson such an enormity. As if people like him do not deserve salvation after all the effort the film endeavors to convince us he is not the impersonation of pure evil. Compared to Randy, Benson is the one who is more hurt for a savior, it is a pity Randy and the film fall by the wayside."
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