Directed by Christian Alvart
Starring Ben Foster, Dennis Quaid, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue, Cung Le, Norman Reedus

Quality scifi is always welcomed in this house hold. Pandorum uses old recipes, but manages to cook something that feels fresh. There are mixtures of Alien, Red Planet and Event Horizon (E.H. director Anderson was a producer on this) in a setting that sees Foster's Bower waking from his hypersleep to a ship infested with cannibalistic mutants. Their mission originally being to head over to a new Earth-like planet in order to set up a human colony.

 This all sounds familiar, I know, but luckily director Alvert is able to create a genuine atmosphere of fear of isolation and for the unknown and makes us fear the most used consept in horror movies once more.. long dark corridors.

 Even though the consept itself has been seen many times over it is also thanks to the magnificent cast that this space nightmare pulls it home with high remarks. Especially the always reliable Foster (30 Days of Night, Hostage) is in top form and Quaid handles his own subplot over the character's demons respectively. The suppoting cast sadly remains as just that.


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Pandorum on parasta scifiä miesmuistiin. Pimeät, ikuisuuksiin jatkuvat käytävät herättävät taas tehokkaasti ahdistuksen henkiin ja pelko tuntematonta kohtaan, sekä eristäytyneisyyden tunne on rakennettu kohtalaisen onnistuneesti. Parhainta filmissä ovat silti pääkaksikon, Quaidin ja etenkin Fosterin suoritukset. Asetelmassa ei toki ole paljoa alkuperäisyyttä, mutta kuten sitä on jo aiemminkin todettu niin väliäkö tuolla, jos vanhoista aineksista saa loihdittua jotain tuoretta.


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