Throughout, some obvious questions pop up immediately.
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09/25/09
Pandorum (2009)
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Reviews Counted:67
Fresh:18
Rotten:49
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: While it might prove somewhat satisfying for devout sci-fi fans, Pandorum's bloated, derivative plot ultimately leaves it drifting in space.
Australian Rating: TBC
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Australian Theatrical Release:
Oct 8, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $10,261,085
Synopsis: In Pandorum, actors, Dennis Quaid (Vantage Point, The Express) and Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma, Alpha Dog), join Cam Gigandet (Never Back Down, Twilight), Cung Le (Tekken, Fighting), newcomer Antje... [More]
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue
Director: Christian Alvart
Reviews for Pandorum
So bad it ought to be based on a video game.
09/29/09
flirts with greatness with an impressive first half filled with thrills and solid pacing but it stumbles in its more action-oriented second half.
10/05/09
Murky both literally and figuratively.
10/04/09
Alvart's cynicism about the current state of mankind helps make futuristic Pandorum interesting, but what makes it fun is his evident enthusiasm and talent for exploring the conventions of sci-fi films.
09/25/09
Pandorum doesn’t make a whole lot of sense and is shot and edited in a way that only adds to the confusion. In space nobody can hear you scratching your head.
10/04/09
Derivative but mostly just dull, what we have here is an entertainment blackhole able to suck all joy out of a trip to the cinema.
10/04/09
Cobbled together from chunks of Battlestar Galactica, The Descent, Serenity, Cube, Resident Evil, Event Horizon and Alien ... Pandorum is an efficient scare machine if you ignore the plot contrivances.
09/25/09
Do yourself a favour and keep the lid of Pandorum's box firmly closed.
10/04/09
Some scary moments, but its final half-hour is a right old mess, and the title is doomed never to be remembered.
10/04/09
It's Alien meets The Descent in the new film Pandorum. It's a case of been there, done that. But does Pandorum manage to do it better?
09/26/09
Pandorum's insistence on action sequence after action sequence, reveal after reveal, tension upon tension deadens the effect any of it might have had in a more gracefully developed narrative.
10/04/09
It might make a passable video game. Despite expensive production design, as a movie it is pretty much unwatchable.
10/04/09
By the time one of the creatures tosses a character a pipe and they proceed to martial arts fight, it's safe to presume that a shark has been jumped and there is no turning things around.
09/25/09
There are some well-executed sequences, but the story makes nothing but a mess of its borrowed ideas.
10/04/09
After two hours in the dark with this loud but hollow hybrid, you’ll know “space madness”. In a good year for smart sci-fi, Pandorum lumbers and groans.
10/04/09
Pandorum is a hodge-podge of familiar sci-fi stuff, which feels as if it were adapted from a computer game.
10/04/09
Top CriticTake Ben Foster, have him walk slowly down a dark corridor and see something or someone in the distance, then either have him fall flat on his face, or get a butt-whippin'. Repeat approximately twenty times
09/25/09
Pandorum is neither schlocky enough to be an enjoyable genre flick, nor smart enough to provoke any original thoughts.
10/04/09
Action mayhem full of gibbering hominoids, hanging corpses and a few live stars.
10/04/09
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