There's a good reason this movie performed so poorly at the box office and that the studio itself clearly had no interest in promoting/marketing this film. Normally, I wouldn't give much credence to BO--plenty of great movies never see the light of day--but this time, popularity and quality go hand in hand.
Yikes.
What seemed like a great premise goes nowhere fast and turns into a mishmash of about six other films and far too many genres. You've literally got ninja warriors with alien demons along with tried and true sci-fi tropes that we've seen far too many times before. The end result isn't a psychological thriller or a complicated and taut sci-fi fantasy film, but just solid crap unworthy of even a made-for-TV-movie.
To discover that the director decided to "meld" a script he already had with the one he read by the screenwriter of this pile is not a surprise. The only surprise is that there weren't thirteen or so other scripts that were cut and pasted together to make this one a gruesome and sad reality.
The only reason I continued watching the film to the end was because I thought that maybe- -just maybe--there would be some fantastic twist or last minute revelation, and though there was a feeble attempt at such a plot turn, in the end, there's really nothing worth sitting through in Pandorum.
Don't waste your time the way I have. If you have any sense of taste or any semblance of understanding of film/sci-fi, you'll quickly be able to detect within the first five minutes of this mess that you won't need my advice. Just trust that what's bad never gets better.
Trash.
Yikes.
What seemed like a great premise goes nowhere fast and turns into a mishmash of about six other films and far too many genres. You've literally got ninja warriors with alien demons along with tried and true sci-fi tropes that we've seen far too many times before. The end result isn't a psychological thriller or a complicated and taut sci-fi fantasy film, but just solid crap unworthy of even a made-for-TV-movie.
To discover that the director decided to "meld" a script he already had with the one he read by the screenwriter of this pile is not a surprise. The only surprise is that there weren't thirteen or so other scripts that were cut and pasted together to make this one a gruesome and sad reality.
The only reason I continued watching the film to the end was because I thought that maybe- -just maybe--there would be some fantastic twist or last minute revelation, and though there was a feeble attempt at such a plot turn, in the end, there's really nothing worth sitting through in Pandorum.
Don't waste your time the way I have. If you have any sense of taste or any semblance of understanding of film/sci-fi, you'll quickly be able to detect within the first five minutes of this mess that you won't need my advice. Just trust that what's bad never gets better.
Trash.