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Pandorum

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Pandorum

Antje Traue, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Cung Le, Dennis Quaid, Eddie Rouse, Friederike Kempter, Niels Bruno Schmidt, Norman Reedus, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Yangzom Brauen

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.
  • Jameshy
    December 10, 2009
    Jameshy
    Very hit and miss. It kind of works as a survival horror similar to The Descent but there are just so many plot holes and stupid decisions made by the characters that it gets pretty annoying. The movie's look is incredibly dark, it looks good but sometimes it's hard to tell wha...( read more)ts going on especially with the fast cutting in action scenes. It had some interesting moments and some nice suspense but the ending ruined it for me with the silly twist and philosophy. Could have been good, but wasn't.
  • ChrisChristoferson
    December 10, 2009
    ChrisChristoferson
    i liked it...its a nice movie...the story its not original...its has some differences with alien or other alien/sci fi movies...i really liked the direction..the atmosphere...and as i have said many times Ben Foster is a very good actor...he should get more chances by the studios...( read more)...Music was nice and was so similar with Clint Mansell's "Moon" soundtrack....
  • resonatingbiodroid
    December 9, 2009
    resonatingbiodroid
    Better than I thought it would be.
  • majb900
    December 9, 2009
    majb900
    Dos astronautas despiertan de un sueño largo sólo para descubrir que su nave ha sido tomada por seres extraños, que no tienen las mejores intenciones... Las situaciones los llevan cada vez más cerca de "Pandorum", hasta que la verdad sale a luz.

    Cumple el objetivo de entretener,...( read more) no es de esperarse mucho porque definitivamente no se va a obtener, pero si la vemos sin altas expectativas nos podemos llevar una sorpresa. 6/10
  • dil1788
    December 8, 2009
    dil1788
    Not too bad, but it's neither exciting nor chilling.
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