PANDORUM Film Review - 8/2/10

I had seen a few things on this but was interested in the German Director Christian Alvart who had directed a creepy little thriller called 'Antikorper' (Antibodies) so when I found out he was directing this new sci-fi and it was his first English film I decided to hunt it down. Of course much like another underrated film 'Outlander' this had a blink-and-you'll-miss-it limited cinema release and then straight to DVD. Both films have a theme in common - Someone thrown into an alien situation and having to deal with it. In this case it could be called space madness or again it could be something completely different? Taking the usual genre threads and weaving them together instead of a tired alone in space scenario this goes off on it's own little tangent and actually has it's own credible story backing it up right through to the end - Of course questions remain unanswered - But it is coherent enough to all make sense. Awaking out of hypersleep a disorientated member of the starship Elysium has lost his memory, not finding any other crew he starts to despair until another sleep pod opens heaving out another equally disorientated crewmember - Together they decide to find out what is going on and then find that something is stirring in the depths of the vast ship? Plausible it runs through a gamut of theories and action with a number of twists & turns thrown in for good measure. A rather satisfying tale all round!

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