ComplainerMan

Pandorum

I like this version of the Pandorum movie poster. The more popular version shows a man’s arms with various tubes shoved under the skin. That has nothing to do with the movie. The version to the left… well … you can’t tell what the hell is going on. And that is a very accurate represenation of what you will experience when watching this movie. I guess having everything so dark, moving fast, and just visible in flashes, especially early in the movie, was supposed to add to the mystery and suspense, but it ended up just being disorienting. “What the hell was that?” “What just happened?” You’ll figure it out halfway through the movie, but not before paying a price of discomfort and annoyance at the poor execution of cinematographic trickery.

Pandorum is a sci fi, monster, suspense, slasher film. Lots of scary monsters, once you can finally see them, and weird going’s on that you may or may not understand or care about. There’s a bit of a twist towards the end regarding the character played by Dennis Quaid. Had the director put more effort into the story-line and character development, and less into the distracting and confusing camera work and special effects, I may have liked this movie more.