Sometimes the setup for a film is so tantalizing that when the picture fails miserably, it hurts that much more.
Pandorum is certainly one of these instances -- a mysterious sci-fi horror freak-out that misses the horror altogether and bores the audience with asinine characters plodding through all-too-familiar territory. Take one part
Event Horizon and equal parts
Ghosts of Mars and
The Descent, then mix them in a dirty blender, and that's basically
Pandorum. It takes a lot from what came before, then sullies things up by botching the execution, time and again. Instead of tension, viewers get frenzied editing. In the place of horro...
Released:
2009
Rated:
R
Length:
109 mins