Review of Pandorum (2009) by Becca D — 23 Jun 2011
My rating: 3 out of 5 stars. Set hundreds of years in the future after humanity has been forced to abandon Earth due to wars and devastation, Pandorum takes place on a sleeper ship heading towards a distant Earth-like planet to be the new home of the human race.
The film is dark and creepy, a decent space horror film kind of similar to Event Horizon. Ben Foster wakes up from deep sleep to find a ghost ship with almost no one still alive that is out of stasis, and has to get the ship powered up again so that the remaining survivors can make it to the safe haven planet of Tanis.
It is a cool movie with some good kill scenes and some good violence, although it has a couple of plot holes â" the biggest is that the origin of the aliens on the ship is never sufficiently explained.
Aside from that though, the film isnâ(TM)t too bad, but it could have been a lot better also. It feels like more than one film was spliced together to make this one, which apparently is what happened when the director and writer each spliced together ideas they had had for similar movies into this one.
The ending does leave the film open to a sequel, and it was actually planned to be the start of a trilogy, but unfortunately since it bombed at the box office, that sequel will be unlikely to ever arrive.
If you like space horror, check this film out, otherwise give it a pass.
This review of Pandorum (2009) was written by Becca D on 23 Jun 2011.
Pandorum has generally received mixed reviews.
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