Pandorum

Anyone that knows me knows that I like horror movies. Whether they are good or bad I like see what twisted stuff comes out of the minds of writers. Well this week Pandorum came out and watching the previews for it it seemed like the type of movie that was right up my alley. Well I was partially right on that anyways.

Pandorum follows a spaceship traveling through space to colonize a new planet for humanity. It seems we have finally got to the point where we have destroyed the earth and we need a new planet to live on. So they cram 60,000 people into a craft called a "sleeper ship". The whole idea behind this ship is that people are put into a type of deep sleep/freezing that causes them to age extremely slowly and helps store them for the type to this new planet. The trip is supposed to take 123 years and when the crew gets there they are to start colonizing and get everything ready for the rest of mankind.

The movie start up with the craft already in route to its destination and well on its way there. Two of the crew members wake up from the deep sleep to discover no one is around. The side effect of this deep sleep is that you have temporary amnesia. If everything is going right then there are people manning these pods so that when a person wakes up they can take them through the process to regain their memory. Once the two crew members are out of their pods they realize that they have no clue what is going on or where they are. Once they escape the pod room they begin to locate other crew members that are being attacked by strange creatures throughout the ship. As they fight these creatures off they start to understand the predicament that everyone is in. The creatures themselves are rather interesting as they are all different from one another. Luckily the origin of these creatures is explained as the film progresses (and no they are not aliens).

Once the film really gets going we are shown a message the crew received shortly after they left earth informing them that earth was destroyed and they are all that is left of humanity. This is shown in a flashback that reveals what is actually going on in the craft and what the truth is about everything. I wont ruin they twists in this story but they are somewhat easy to see coming if you are paying attention.

By the end of the movie I was impressed with the overall story and concept, but confused to no end about the time-line of what takes place. While the story does not jump around in time at all the sheer number of years that the crew have been living on the ship is a little confusing. While this wasn't the best horror/sci-fi movie I have seen it wasn't really all that bad.

Just a heads up I can already tell you that the next movie review will be Zombieland. Personally I think this looks like the American version of Shaun of the Dead and I am a little geeked to see it.