Pandorum

2009
Director: Christian Alvart
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Antje Traue.

Pandorum is your basic sci-fi spaceship movie. Guy wakes up on a ship. Oh no, where's the crew?!? Ahhh mutants on board! How did this happen? Oh thank goodness a female and potential love interest is still alive and we can save each other.

The movie is set like 300 years or so in the future. I guess the population on earth was like 28 billion or something so the earth is all used up. The only thing left to do is hop on a spaceship and hope to find a new earth. You see some flashback featuring the captain of the ship getting a message that the earth was destroyed and they are the only hope. We are then introduced to the main character, Bower. He wakes up from his sleeping pod to find the ships power is out. After about an hour his commanding officer Payton (Dennis Quaid) also wakes up in a wonderment why nothing is on. I was just as confused as they were because I guess in 300 years everyone will go back to whitey tighties as the underwear of choice. Once dressed, they get to investigating why they were woken up before schedule and what happened to the power.

First thing you notice is the main character Bower (Ben Foster) just has an annoying voice. I hoped every line he spoke would bring him closer to his demise. Because Payton is the lieutenant, he sends Bower through the air ducts to get to the battery or something. He gets all claustrophobic and crawling through pipes and starts wiggin out. Then a dead body falls on him and it's really time to panic. The next hour of the movie consists of Bower, this butt kicking chick he meets and some kind of pacific islander farmer with a spear running away from the rest of the crew that has turned into mutants. They need to get into the ships core to start the power over.

What seemed like a very average at best movie turned in a pretty unpredictable twist. I honestly didn't see what was coming. I won't say much about it because honestly if you already know what will happen, there is nothing more to see here. Acting is so so. I wasn't a fan of Foster or Quaid or really anyone. The crazy guy that Quaid rescues is the only one who really turned in a good performance. That dude was legitimately creepy.

Rating: Pandorum gets 3 out of 5 stars. The ship was pretty cool visually. They did a good job conveying a really dark atmosphere for the most part. The chick was kind of cute but she was covered in dirt and blood 90% of the time which isn't as hot as it sounds if that sounds hot to you. Twist at the end makes this watchable because the story leading up to it was dumb. If you are into sci-fi movies, I would say it's worth seeing once. If you like the sound of music, skip this.

Best Scene: The ending is the best but I still won't spoil it. Bower waking up was cool. The most suspenseful scene is when Bower climbs around on all the sleeping mutants. That was kind of cool. You never get the sense that they will be captured throughout the whole movie. Oh well.

Quotes: None. Dialogue sucked

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