Pandorum Movie Dennis Quaid 2009

movie guy — Sun, 16 May 2010 15:29:10 +0000

: Cover of Pandorum [Blu-ray]

Pandorum is a movie that greatly surprised me. It slipped right underneath the radar and I don’t even remember seeing previews for it before the movie had its theatrical release.

I was perusing the satellite the other day and happened to notice it listed. So I checked out the description and it seemed fairly interesting so I decided to watch it.

It centers around a future in 2173 where humans are at over 24 billion population. Food and water shortages are common place so fighting over resources is intense.

In the 100 years before this they had been preparing. They could see the writing on the wall and so had sent out satellite probes to find any planets that were enough like Earth to support life. One planet called Tanis was found.

A mission was sent aboard a shuttle called Elysium to colonize this planet.

16,000 brave souls were sent on the spaceship. Countless insects, plant life, and animals were sent as well. This was to be a regular Noah’s ark.

We find ourselves on the ship when one of the main characters is coming out of what they call “hyper sleep”.

He awakens to a nightmare though because no one else seems to be present aboard the ship. He’s attempting to find his way around but unfortunately there seems to be no power on the ship. Things are hazy to him which is a side effect of the hyper sleep. Over the next few hours and days his memory will start coming back.

Pretty soon after Dennis Quaid’s character Lieut. Payton wakes up.

They decide to send Bower searching to see what is going on. He remembers stuff about the nuclear reactor so they deduced that he is an engineer. Since both are part of the flight crew they know the reactor must be reset in order to keep working.

When he goes out on the “reset the reactor” mission he meets some terrible things. Neither of them knows how long they have been sleeping but they suspect it’s for eight years. It turns out to be way longer than that.

There are these crazy hunter creatures which they suspect are aliens. They look somewhat humanoid but have these spikes like a stegosaurus coming out of their shoulders and their backs. In addition they don’t really look human.

And they are hunting humans. He discovers a few bodies that have been dangled from a wire almost like bait for a trap.

He meets up with a couple of other humans along the way who wind up attacking him. It’s got a very Lord of the Flies feel to it. With a mix of Aliens thrown in.

The ship is dark and it’s been every human for themselves so far. With the crazy creatures hunting them like a pack of wild ravenous wolves the humans must band together or they will certainly perish.

Finally, Bower convinces the woman and the guy he’s encountered to form a tenuous alliance.

He needs solidarity or they’ll all die.

Their goal is to get to the reactor so now the three of them set off on their way. They encounter the creatures again and then find themselves in this little holding cell area. There’s a human there who claims to be a cook.

He feeds them a little something but then gases them.

When they awaken they are dangling from the ceiling by chains.

The cook intends to eat them one at a time. It’s all about “survival of the fittest” he says.

Bower admits to him that these are crazy times and all he’s doing is surviving. Noone is going to judge him for what he’s done. Just then a fortuitous power surge hits and Bauer captializes on this opportunity.

He reasons with the guy about the power surges and the guy comes to realize that the reactor must be reset. So he lets them down and they all set off to reset the reactor.

There’s a crazy scene where Bower basically walks over an absolute horde of these creepy cannibal creatures to get to the reactor.

You just know it was going to be intense and he was barely going to reset the reactor with only little time left on the clock before it completely shut down.

It was an exciting finish and there was this hazy revelation which happened right at the end.

Earlier in the story we had discovered that Bauer’s wife had left him. She didn’t want to go on the journey on the Elysium with him even though most of the other officers wives and families were there on the ship.

These families had been taken out by the creatures but that was beside the point.

Bower meets the new love of his life and were left believing that they were the leaders of the new colony. This is a must see and I give it 3 1/2 out of 5 stars.

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