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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.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Theatrical Release:Sep 25, 2009 Wide
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
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Reviews for Pandorum
An unusually unpleasant and unwatchable sci-fi endeavor...
11/01/09
Clenches its teeth grimly as it blunders through its overstuffed plot.
10/11/09
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
An intensely effective sci-fi chiller, mainly thanks to its canny set and sound design, and its constant, relentless sense of dread and tension.
10/09/09
Provides some very intense, memorable chills.
10/09/09
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
Pandorum is a hodge-podge of familiar sci-fi stuff, which feels as if it were adapted from a computer game.
10/04/09
Alvart achieves a strong sense of scale, but characters and ideas are lost amid a mess of fight scenes that, oddly, look like outtakes from ‘The Descent’.
10/04/09
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
Pandorum is less a story than a prolonged bout of paranoid hysterics, exuberantly played out on metal gangplanks and inside Stygian tunnels. As such, it works just fine.
10/04/09
Murky both literally and figuratively.
10/04/09
Riffing on Alien, Sunshine and Resident Evil, the German director Alvart finds an effective balance between action-excitement and psychological chills.
10/04/09
There are some well-executed sequences, but the story makes nothing but a mess of its borrowed ideas.
10/04/09
Pandorum is dumb, noisy fun. Its flaws are inoffensive inasmuch as Alvart doesn’t give off Anderson’s noxious vibe of insincerity.
10/04/09
Pandorum is neither schlocky enough to be an enjoyable genre flick, nor smart enough to provoke any original thoughts.
10/04/09
It’s a competent if unoriginal adventure but you do wish Alvart had had the courage of his convictions to go with the Pandorum idea rather bowing to the pressure of convention and basically resetting The Descent in space.
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
It might make a passable video game. Despite expensive production design, as a movie it is pretty much unwatchable.
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
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