Pandorum (2009)

Director: Christian Alvart
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Genre: Sci-Fi / Thriller
MPAA: Rated R
Overture Films




The ORB's take: Not worth your time at all - what is reality, maybe isn't really real.

Movie Review:
This is one of those movies that provides a great trailer, but once you see the movie you ask yourself what was the trailer (meaning it looks like a promising movie, but the movie itself is absolutely horrible). "Dennis Quaid" and "Ben Foster" are the actors that you will recognize in this film but the script is so bad that well known actors can not help this movie, even from a "made from television" standpoint. The worst part about this movie is that it tries so hard to make you think something is happening, when it is really not happening. It makes you think that they are somewhere, when they are really elsewhere, and that is the experience / twist this screenwriter and director are attempting to give the audience. In the trailer the movie gives the impression that it may be scary, but that is very mis-leading and a joke. The story is about a "colony" ship carrying 5000 passengers (obviously set in the future) that is on a mission to a new planet to inhabit it because Earth, as a planet, is dying. During the trip a couple of crew members awake from "hyper-sleep" and discover that no one is around and the ship is at a standstill. The members set out to restart the ship and while doing so stumble upon what some of the 5000 crew members have become - or have they? - or do they have a disease called "Pandorum"? If that little bit is not enough to divert you from wasting your time on this movie, then I will not be able to help you out on this one. Don't wait for the DVD, and don't set your DVR - this movie landed on a different planet than Earth and it should stay there, away from all human contact.

What to Watch For: The Mutants, The Credits

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