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Pandorum

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Pandorum

Antje Traue, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Cung Le, Dennis Quaid

Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It's pitch black, they are disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the ship...( read more  read more... ). They can't remember anything. Who are they? What is their mission? With Lt. Payton staying behind to guide him via radio transmitter, Cpl. Bower ventures deep into the ship and begins to uncover a terrifying reality. Slowly the spacecraft's shocking, deadly secrets are revealed, and the astronauts find their own survival is more important than they could ever have imagined.

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  • sitenoise
    December 3, 2009
    sitenoise
    I watched this movie because I think Ben Foster is a major talent. And this movie proves it again. It's a fairly bad movie but you can see Foster improvising his way through it, trying to make something of the nonsense he's given to work with. He adds a sense of humor to the proc...( read more)eedings by almost mocking his own dialog. He whispers a lot too. I suppose he's hoping maybe no one will be able to hear some of the lines he has to deliver. So it is entertaining on that level. The rest of it is garbage. These creatures they encounter, the ones that can run faster than humans and are "stronger than you know", well, the humans outrun them throughout the whole movie, sort of like the way Mark Wahlberg outran the wind in "The Happening", and they beat them in some fights. And Yo! the director uses silly camera tricks to cover up ridiculously written and choreographed scenes. Movie bad, Ben Foster good.

    sitenoise at the movies: Pandorum [2009]
  • MalumMosIncrebresco
    December 2, 2009
    MalumMosIncrebresco
    It starts off brilliantly!

    But after those first 12 seconds, you start to realize you're about to waste 107.88 precious minutes of your life with a pathetic form of self-torture.

    Which you do.

    The plot holes and cliches are more shocking than Reese Witherspoon's chin.

    Save yo...( read more)urself.

    And no, 1.5 stars doesn't mean that there's actually anything good or new about it.

    I'm just feeling friendly today.
  • flickfever
    October 30, 2009
    flickfever
    Pandorum is a movie that takes place in a distant future; when mankind has exhausted its time on a single planet and vowed to conquer the rest of the universe with its advanced technology. This movie takes that concept and flings you right in the middle of a mysterious series of ...( read more)events that begin to unfold from the film's very first scene.

    As an astronaut wakes up from cryogenic slumber, his world is turned upside down when his memory begins to fail him as to who he is and what he's doing there. As it turns out, he has been asleep for quite some time and is on a rotating schedule with other crew members to man the mission to a far-off world over extended periods of time (the years it would take to reach the final destination.) Well, low and behold, nobody is around to greet him and things start to get nasty from that point on.

    As the man tries to cope readjusting, he comes across a commander who seems to be going through the same delirious side effects of a mental condition known as--you guessed it--pandorum. If the crew members can stave off the ffects of this degenerative condition and stay alive long enough to seek the truth of their mission, they will be more than okay. Oh yeah, and did I mention that something is on the ship--impeding their happy-go-lucky way to finish their task. Something nasty has mutated and is now hunting them down.

    The movie is pretty sleek in visual aesthetic for being an "indie" with a meager budget. The cast, including Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster is not stellar--but the actors do a fine job at maintaining a sense of gravitas in a genre flick that could have become very stale. A decent script is probably the reason why the film really never fell flat.

    Stylistically, the film portrays a far-future so interesting--even though the entire movie takes place aboard the one ship. It is in classic sci-fi fashion (like its predecessors Alien and 2001: A Space Odyssey) that Pandorum takes the vastness of space and makes you feel confined and claustrophobic. It is with these techniques and a visual flare that the movie rises above its deficiencies.

    With a bunch of cool lighting effects (black lights and neon) the movie gains its visual signature and stands out as a cool-looking flick. The monsters that linger within the ships bowels are strikingly reminiscent of those in the spelunker's nightmare, The Descent. Only these guys are equiped with bad-ass laser guns.

    Overall, the movie is worthy of being seen...preferrably in theaters; but otherwise watch it on a big screen.
  • kiriyamakazou
    October 23, 2009
    kiriyamakazou
    Pandorum was a huge disappointment to me. I knew nothing about the film, and foolishly took that as a promising factor. It turned out to be very irritating and painfully dull. The film revolves around Ben Foster running around a ship, and Dennis Quaid sitting in a chair doing NOT...( read more)HING. Quaid is the equivalent to some computer game character that always calls you up with your next mission, or a simple hint. The mutants are poorly designed, or at least, ineffective at being scary. Only a small child mutant comes close to chilling. The film is very dark, and it's hard to see anything. At first this added to the claustrophobia and uncertainty, but it soon became apparent that light wasn't coming. To add to the confusion, every time there was an attack of some kind, the cameras would shake uncontrollably, making it even harder to see. The film is slow and has been done better else where.
  • phubbs1
    October 21, 2009
    phubbs1
    Hard to sum this film up really, add alittle 'Aliens', 'Alien' and 'Event Horizon', then a total rip of 'The Descent' and 'The Cave', set in space aboard yet another derelict spacecraft and film it in near total darkness using choppy/fast cutting camera work with loads of unusual...( read more) angles and there you have it :)

    I liked this film because it was alittle different and sci-fi but 'alittle' being the operative word haha the plot is a mish mash of all films said above and it doesn't really hide that fact, even the creatures are pretty much the same as the creatures in 'The Descent', with a slight 'Mad Max' touch about them if you ask me (their homemade armour) as do certain crew survivors along the way.
    The whole thing starts off pretty well and keeps you really glued to the screen, Foster is excellent as usual, almost too good for the film really, the rest merely make up the cast to an average standard, Quaid being badly miscast as a mental baddie that looks like Dallas from Alien or a slim Captain Nemo hehe
    Effects are also likeable and look space age yet murky and eerie at the same time (Event Horizon style), creature makeup is also top notch again showing up cgi for being crap half the time. Problem is as the film moves forward it becomes less intriguing and more confusing and rather stupid. The creatures simply turn into a gang of zombie like flesh chompers that run around screaming , getting killed and at one point have a one on one martial arts style kendo fight with one of the disposable 'heroes', a loooow point there.

    As you near the end of the film there are twists galore as you completely lose the plot haha and trying to actually see what the hell is going on through the darkness and epileptic fit inducing camera work, but there is something here that does entice me still, despite all its failings I do actually kinda like the film and I'm not sure why. Acting by Foster helps, it looks good is another factor and it moves at a good pace with a reasonable plot (people trapped with lots of creatures after them is a good solid winner normally hehe) despite quite afew questions that linger in the air.

    There is an obvious sequel there too but lets not go there, not yet anyway.
  • kigaiyuuto
    December 20, 2009
    kigaiyuuto
    I don't get why some ppl (and critics) hate it so much. Yes, the premise is nothing new (I don't agree to those who say that it's a rip-off), but at least it delivered, unlike some movies try to do new things and failed. There were twists and turns in the movie in which I didn't ...( read more)expect. But the ending ties the whole movie neatly. Recommended viewing for those who're into sci-fi or movies like Aliens, the Descent, Eden Log etc.
  • julianlb
    December 19, 2009
    julianlb
    Pouco original essa ficção científica pouco difere de filmes como Aliens, Event Horizon e Pitchy Black, parecendo também uma versão espacial de The Descent. Mas nem por isso é um filme ruim, os cenários são ótimos, a atuação de Ben Foster é muito boa e há muuuuuuuuuita ação e ten...( read more)são ao longo do filme. Pra quem curte Sci-fi, horror e ação num só pacote, o filme tem tudo pra agradar.
  • mythosslayer
    December 14, 2009
    mythosslayer
    After watching the trailer I thought this would be an intense Scifi-Horror ala Event Horizon, but it turned out to be a bore. Even though I do like Ben Foster he really didn't have much to work with. Also the "monsters" seemed like some cheap rip-offs from Ghosts of Mars. There w...( read more)asn't any claustrophobic atmosphere that I was looking for, it was jus the main character going from point A to B. MIssable.
  • civilzen
    December 14, 2009
    civilzen
    Aliens or Event Horizon fans will dig this scifi thriller. Proving that memory is all that separates us from madness.
  • ahs15
    December 13, 2009
    ahs15
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