Do yourself a favour and keep the lid of Pandorum's box firmly closed.
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10/04/09
Pandorum (2009)
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Reviews Counted:66
Fresh:18
Rotten:48
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
Paul WS Anderson rains down another cinematic crapstorm with Pandorum, a confused, unfocused (sometimes literally) attempt to make an ideas-driven but mainstream sci-fi flick.
10/04/09
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
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
Pandorum isn't all that bad, it just isn't good either. Fans of films like Event Horizon, Alien 3, and Resident Evil are sure to get their money worth, but I feel anyone outside of the "club" is sure to be disappointed. Watch with caution.
09/25/09
A gorgeous production design can't save the picture from trying too hard to dazzle with very little inspiration, and while Pandorum is easy to stare at, it can be a seriously punishing sit.
09/25/09
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
Probably the film's only real saving grace is Ben Foster, who tries hard in the lead, but doesn't have a heck of a lot to work with.
09/25/09
It might make a passable video game. Despite expensive production design, as a movie it is pretty much unwatchable.
10/04/09
As always, Foster sells the hell out of his role but non-sci-fi fans may well themselves be driven mad long before the end.
09/27/09
The sort of thing that makes you wish you were playing a video game instead.
09/27/09
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
An unusually unpleasant and unwatchable sci-fi endeavor...
11/01/09
It couldn't keep my attention for even a nano second.
10/02/09
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
There is too much going on, it goes on for too long and it all comes crashing at the climax.
09/25/09
A grizzled Quaid and an intense Foster do their best to keep straight faces, but this is not an effort likely to figure prominently on their resumes.
09/27/09
So bad it ought to be based on a video game.
09/29/09
too much of the film devolves into hectic action sequences that makes you feel like someone suddenly dropped you into a blender and turned out all the lights
10/10/09
Latest News for Pandorum
September 24, 2009:
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September 22, 2009:
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