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Thursday, October 01, 2009

Movie Review - Pandorum (2009)

Starring Ben Foster and Dennis Quaid
Directed by Christian Alvert

Movies are a visual medium. For the most part, seeing things is better than hearing about them. In Pandorum, everything is simply explained to us, rather than being shown to us. Sure, sometimes awful flashback scenes are mixed in with the expository dialogue, but this flick is much too talky without really saying much of anything.

It doesn't help that it looks like it was made on an incredibly low budget. Granted, that's not always a bad thing when it comes to sci-fi (look at Moon for an example of low budget sci-fi done right), but in this film, it looks like the actors are running down the same hallway over and over again just lit differently. And the director doesn't help here either. He manages to shoot action sequences so awkwardly that any tension (of which there really isn't any to begin with) is negated.

Nothing here is worthwhile. The "aliens" look like any other alien we've seen. The acting (especially by Dennis Quaid) is poor. It runs on entirely too long, clocking in at a completely unnecessary nearly two hours. Poor all around.

The RyMickey Rating: D-

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