Paul W S Anderson is one of the producers so lower your expectations.By 2174 planet Earth is overpopulated and resources are scarce. has reached a limit. A giant spaceship has been constructed, a kind of ark sent out to deep space. The spacecraft Elysium is heading for planet Tanis which can sustain life.The crew are sent to hyper sleep for the long flight. Corporal Bower (Ben Foster) wakes up due to a malfunction in his pod. He is unsure where he is and suffers from amnesia. Lieutenant Payton (Dennis Quaid) also wakes up and discover that the ship's reactor is not working. Bower goes to fix it but realises that the ship has sinister secrets.As Bower goes through the dark passages he finds out that there are mutant cannibal figures, super strong lightning fast and out for flesh. Payton discovers that after the ship was launched, some of the crew went mad and regressed. Bower comes across some isolated survivors, members of the crew who have awoken and fighting to survive from the mutants. Pandorum has an incoherent story, it is a mess and borrows from other films. It has bits of Alien, Event Horizon, Sunshine, even Fight Club.A lot of the film takes place in the dark, it keeps the budget down. The mutants are there for jolts and make no sense. Humans do not mutate in hundreds of years and given their abilities, the mutants should have killed everyone in the ship by now.Despite the derivative feel of the film, Ben Foster keep the film going. It has enough action and mystery to be passably entertaining and I liked the ending.

This is a rollercoaster ride of a movie! It starts out a bit slow, but once it gets going, it never stops. There are so many twists and turns that you can't exactly predict how the plot will unfold. At some point, it starts to feel like an adventure movie from the 80s or 90s with an ensemble cast and characters in set roles and I felt this made the movie feel a bit silly at times. And some of the acting can feel a bit hokey and over-the-top, which weakens the more serious moments. However, the sci-fi elements are superb! It takes bits and pieces from other horror and sci-fi films, but arranges them in an interesting way. It has some truly terrifying "OH SHIT" moments. If you enjoy movies like Alien, The Thing, and Apollo 13, you'll really love this!

Review (1~5)#Content: Script 2 | Acting 2 | Cinematography 2 | Film Editing 2#Visual: Costume Design 2 | Makeup & Hairstyling 3 | Scenic Design 3 | Lighting 3 | Visual Effects 3#Sound: Score & Soundtracks 2 | Sound Editing & Mixing 3#Overall (1~10): 4

Not many movies make you want to clam up and let people discover the plot for themselves. But I think this is one of them.It's formulaic in certain ways, but has superb twists, some right at the start, and a few clangers at the end. I'm not going to ruin the surprise as I'd like you to have the whole experience of watching it unwarned. Or you can keeping looking through the reviews.The action starts well and ramps up very nicely. You are kept off balance and wondering what the hell is real or a lie.The acting is great, pacing is excellent and make-up is awesome.Basically, Pandora should be held up as what an Action/SciFi/Horror stew should look like.Nicely written, Milloy.