Upruptly awakened from hypersleep, two spacemen on an intergalactic vessel are faced with the curious question of their missing comrades and disappeared memories. Lost in darkness and space, the remaining crew embarks on a rescue mission for themselves to save humanity.
Although well produced with a cast of competent actors, a clearly sizable budget, and even initiating with a sense of mystery that resembles the classic Cube, the ferocious editing and hammy script work to scramble the brain and make watching a chore. By the first 20 minutes it’s obvious that the narrative relies on a repetitive cycle of hyperbole, suspense and action, which gets rapidly becomes intolerable.
Quad and Foster’s overacting theatrics are immediately repulsive. Traue does a nice version of a mila jovovich, a hottie who speaks eengrish with big tits. The emotions they share are few and primitive, not unlike the mutant cannibal tribespeople foes, completely vapid and superficial – possibly what the director expected their audience to be.
What’s worse is that Pandorum rips off Alien so much. The set design, architecture, costumes, antagonists, concepts, characters, storyline twist. With just a little work it could have been salvaged as a dark fantasy tale. But as it stands, this is painful and as bad as it can get.
1/10
Possession Media 