Pandorum
I’ll be honest, this wasn’t I was expecting. Of course, I didn’t really see any trailers, so that would explain it.
The year is 2174. Earth’s population has far outgrown its’ resources. War has broken out. Now, man has sent out ships to look for new places to live.
Suddenly, Payton (Dennis Quaid) and Bower (Ben Foster)- two pilots on one such mission- have woken up from a deep space sleep. They don’t remember their mission, but they’re prepared to find out. It may not be what they expect, though.
Like Paul W.S. Anderson’s “Event Horizon,” this film- and by extension, its’ co-writer Travis Milloy and director Christian Alvert – have studied well the “Alien” films and their ancestors in their tension-building scenarios (perhaps not coincidentally, Anderson is a producer on this film). That doesn’t mean it’s a good pupil, though. And then there are the zombie-alien guys, which seem an awful lot like “Firefly’s” Reavers. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of logic and smarts beyond what could be an otherwise intriguing premise. The performances, which run the gamut in silliness, don’t really help matters either.
The title refers to an emotional condition that occurred during a particularly unnerving space mission. To think what might have been if it’d kept its’ thrills more in the heads of its’ characters than turning it into another monster movie.
