I was expecting the movie when I first saw its trailer a month ago, together with its intriguing poster.
I might be a little bit biased here because I don’t like watching horror type of movie. Well, you can say I’m a coward or whatsoever but paying 10 bucks to scare the shit out of yourself wasn’t a smart thing, at least to me.
Well, unfortunately Pandorum fell into that category and to be honest with you I still couldn’t find the real motivation to watch the movie. Perhaps I was too stressed and I was looking a way to de-stress? (when actually my adrenaline push kept me stress all the time while watching this movie) Not a bad horror film I can say, as much as I can comment that this sci-fi actually does a better job at scaring people compared to those horror movies…
I don’t want to spoil much here. But if you would like to know more about the story I can give you some idea of the whole movie.
Imagine you are a crew in a spaceship that had just woke up from your long hibernating condition, well, like few hundred years? So you are like drunk and you don’t know what’s happening before this. All you know is that you are now naked (almost) and is now trapped in a room with another guy called Lt. Payton. So you two decide to find a route out and to find out what had happened to the ship.
And when the story moves on, you find xxxxxx and scary xxxxxx on the way and you know that the only thing to survive is to xxxxxxxx. So along the way you discover even more xxxxxxxx and xxxxxxx.
And will you survive? (pay the 10 bucks to find out…)
So to be honest the storyline is kinda predicted in a way. But you are paying more for the backbone of the sciences (the concept of the story which will be revealed at the end of the movie) as well as the effects that you get, the thrill and the excitement. (i guess.. though i hate those)
I’m sorry but I was expecting more from this movie. Perhaps I was in a bad mood while watching the movie.
Pandorum (2009) opens in Singapore on October 15.
My rating? Hmm… Scale: 5 out of 7, worth checking out if you are still a sci-fi newbie or looking for some horror twist and adrenaline push.
