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Critics Consensus: While it might prove somewhat satisfying for devout sci-fi fans, Pandorum's bloated, derivative plot ultimately leaves it drifting in space.
Critic Consensus: While it might prove somewhat satisfying for devout sci-fi fans, Pandorum's bloated, derivative plot ultimately leaves it drifting in space.
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All Critics (85) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (61) | DVD (9)
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'.
The script's twisty, end-of-the-world intrigue saves this otherwise leaden film from total self-destruction.
According to the press notes, pandorum means "Orbital Dysfunctional Syndrome"; whatever that is, by the end of the movie I was convinced I had caught it.
A grizzled Quaid and an intense Foster do their best to keep straight faces, but this is not an effort likely to figure prominently on their resumes.
As always, Foster sells the hell out of his role but non-sci-fi fans may well themselves be driven mad long before the end.
The sort of thing that makes you wish you were playing a video game instead.
This movie had way too little science in it and way too much running around boringly. And the monsters? Not even cool.
I actually enjoyed Pandorum, and I absolutely did not think I would. I'm just as surprised as you are.
Well-paced and boasting impressive production design and a decidedly gloomy atmosphere, but execution, no matter how efficient, is no match for originality.
[Pandorum] might seem like a potentially cool movie, but unfortunately the key word is "potentially".
It takes a brilliant concept and stellar performances and buries them in banality and mediocre scares.
A gorgeous production design can't save the picture from trying too hard to dazzle with very little inspiration, and while Pandorum is easy to stare at, it can be a seriously punishing sit.
A very decent Sci/Fi, thriller effort.....first time can say that in a long time! A very good atmospheric film with plenty of action. Starts well the middle is patchy but it picks up again towards the end. Good effects and set design, the overall feel of the film and the spaceship is quite creepy, good use of lighting etc. Not the most original, it will feel like a compilation of ideas from the best know Sci/Fi films. Overall a good effort that most should enjoy.
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Huge sci fi fan and although this movie doesn't make you sick with excitement, it is at best an average sci fi that is enjoyable and doesn't bore you to death. Enough action to see you through, although predictable it does entertain.
Not scary, which is a big problem for a film that is trying to be a sci fi horror
I thought this was a solid alien sci fi movie. A little of Alien, a litttle Event Horizon, a little Resident Evil . .good stuff to me. While it may not be that good of a movie I enjoyed it to the end.
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