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An astronaut named Bower (Ben Foster) awakens from hyper-sleep quite abruptly. He is soon followed by his commanding officer, Payton (Dennis Quaid). The rest of the inner crew of flight 5 on the spacecraft named Elysium is either gone or missing and the only door is locked from the outside. What's happened here? Making matters more difficult is the amnesia that each man suffers from, owing to their having been in hyper-sleep way longer than intended. Somehow, they must piece together what has happened and find out what lies beyond the door and throughout the rest of the gigantic ship. Many people might argue that the film consistently delivered various technical aspects that would rival the big 5 top grossing Science Fiction films of all time such as 2001:A Space Oddyssey (1968), Star Wars (1977), Alien (1979), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Avatar (2009). Although 2001 and Alien have much in common with this film, the director failed to stumble across the correct mix of character development, plot, action, and suspense necessary to captivate the audience in droves. Pandorum was originally proposed as a trilogy, however, the prospects seem quite grim since the film performed way below expectations at the box office. The film planned to be shot straight to video as a low-budget feature for $200,000 in an abandoned paper mill with unknown actors until Impact Pictures read the script and showed a vested interest. Writer Travis Milloy never thought it would be considered as a studio production because of its dark tone. The film had a $40 million budget and only grossed $19 million (as of March 2010) André Hennicke, who plays the lead hunter, can be seen without the monster make-up. He plays the commanding officer of young Gallo in the opening scene. A funny occurrence was that the director Christian Alvart cast his daughter Asia Luna Mohmand as the creepy small child hunter that cut the throat of Leland (Eddie Rouse) or was it toward the end. In order to get a handle on the characterization of the two main actors, let's capture a quote from the film to help explain why the film is called Pandorum: [Bower sees that his hand is shaking uncontrollably, and he speaks to Payton over the walkie-talkie] Bower: Payton? Pandorum, you ever felt the symptoms? Payton: [aghast] Of all the things to remember, why would you pick that? Were you thinking of the Eaton mission? Bower: What about the Eaton? Payton: You just had to remind me of the biggest f____ing catastrophe in space travel, the flight cautionary tale from Hell. Bower: I remember, didn't they have some kind of hypersleep malfunction? Payton: Three years into their shift, one of their officers had a psychological breakdown. The doctors referred to it as ODS symptom. The privates, we call it Pandorum. It drove him insane. He became convinced that the flight was cursed. Evil. Bower: What did he do? Payton: He evacuated the ship. He launched them all into oblivion. 5,000 people sent to their death with one push of a button. Ben Foster insisted to eat real live insects instead of using special F/X or dead ones. Overall, the cannibalistic zombies were an even better touch than eating grasshoppers, however the cursing could go. All in all, if you notice that director Christian Alvart obviously has a lot of talent and took many cues from excellent space films such as Event Horizon. I'm extremely proud that he directed this film as opposed to someone like producer Paul Anderson.Read full review
This movie is great; I was sucked into the suspense of the film the second it started. Not only does it have awesome fight scenes that leave you saying "wow," it also has a killer plot that keeps your attention. (ha ha killer plot that's a pun). Some other reviewers claim that this is like a zombie film, but it is so much more than that. The "zombies" are actually the people of the ship who adapted to the ship instead of the planet they were heading to and to make my point stronger the monsters are very intelligent and zombies are stupid. Just because the monsters are cannibals does not mean they are zombies. Putting the zombie argument aside the best part of this movie is the ending. It makes you feel satisfied at the end and most films today don't leave me with that feeling. Hands down this is a buy and any one can appreciate all aspects of this movie.Read full review
Overall this was a good movie. It had good actors and a pretty good plot. I personally think that it would have been better if they had used something besides zombies, though. I just ain't a big fan of zombie. I would still recommend that you watch this movie if your a fan of sci fi movies. This probably isn't a good movie to let kids watch because of the blood and the language. Here's a summary: In Pandorum, Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster join Cam Gigandet, Cung Le, newcomer Antje Traue, and director Christian Alvart two crew members stranded on a spacecraft who quickly - and horrifically - realize they are not alone. 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. They can't remember anything: Who are they? What is their mission? With Lt. Payton (Quaid) staying behind to guide him via radio transmitter, Cpl. Bower (Foster) 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.Read full review
Veteran Actor Dennis Quaid (The Rookie and many more) stars with Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma) in this Science Fiction future history movie. Aboard a space ship that was sent from earth to settle a distant planet, Foster is awakened from Cryo-Sleep to find that things are not as they should be. He awakens Quaid to help him figure out what is wrong and to save the mission. Along the way we find that others have awakened before them. (SPOILER - DO NOT READ THIS PART IF YOU DO NOT WANT PART OF THE MOVIE GIVEN AWAY) THIS IS THE SPOILER -------- Unbelievably Zombies (Okay, so they are probably NOT Zombies, but they look and act like them) have taken over the ship except there are a few normal crew still around. These People, are super fast, super strong and eat humans, sounds like a zombie to me). Anyway, all this is taking place after a trip of what was supposed to be 120 years, you get a glance for about 1/2 of 1 second to tell you how long it has actually been, I will not spoil that part. It was very difficult to believe this part of the movie. And oh, by the way, Earth was destroyed sometime during their voyage, only no one ever actually says how that happened and no one seems to be very broken up about 27 billion people dying overnight. But hey, its a movie right, guess they didn't feel that was important enough to explain. -------- That being said. The movie was not that bad, putting aside that part. The acting was okay, and the plot had a good science fiction ring to it, although it would be very difficult to believe this could actually happen sometime in the future. Anyway, perhaps rent this one instead of buying it.Read full review
Not for everyone. Great sci fi flick with an unexpectedly great cast. One of those films you can call your own. Do yourself a favor and watch it at least once.
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