Us
Captain Marvel
Widows
The Walking Dead
Log in with Facebook
OR
By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Policies, and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango.
Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password.
We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. Just leave us a message here and we will work on getting you verified.
Please reference “Error Code 2121” when contacting customer service.
While it might prove somewhat satisfying for devout sci-fi fans, Pandorum's bloated, derivative plot ultimately leaves it drifting in space.
All Critics (85) | Top Critics (16) | 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'. Oct 4, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
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'.
Nigel Floyd
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. Oct 4, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
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.
Xan Brooks
The script's twisty, end-of-the-world intrigue saves this otherwise leaden film from total self-destruction. Oct 1, 2009 | Full Review…
The script's twisty, end-of-the-world intrigue saves this otherwise leaden film from total self-destruction.
Michelle Orange
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. Sep 27, 2009 | Rating: 1.5/5
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.
Jeannette Catsoulis
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. Sep 27, 2009
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.
Frank Scheck
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. Sep 27, 2009 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
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.
Clark Collis
This movie had way too little science in it and way too much running around boringly. And the monsters? Not even cool. May 23, 2018 | Full Review…
This movie had way too little science in it and way too much running around boringly. And the monsters? Not even cool.
Annalee Newitz
I actually enjoyed Pandorum, and I absolutely did not think I would. I'm just as surprised as you are. Jan 22, 2018 | Full Review…
I actually enjoyed Pandorum, and I absolutely did not think I would. I'm just as surprised as you are.
Jeremy Jahns
Well-paced and boasting impressive production design and a decidedly gloomy atmosphere, but execution, no matter how efficient, is no match for originality. Sep 8, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Well-paced and boasting impressive production design and a decidedly gloomy atmosphere, but execution, no matter how efficient, is no match for originality.
Shaun Davis
[Pandorum] might seem like a potentially cool movie, but unfortunately the key word is "potentially". Sep 15, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
[Pandorum] might seem like a potentially cool movie, but unfortunately the key word is "potentially".
Matt Neal
It takes a brilliant concept and stellar performances and buries them in banality and mediocre scares. Aug 12, 2010 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
It takes a brilliant concept and stellar performances and buries them in banality and mediocre scares.
Perri Nemiroff
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. Jun 2, 2010 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
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.
Brian Orndorf
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.
Super Reviewer
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.
View All Quotes
View All