Pandorum

Attracted to this title primarily by the always eye pleasing Dennis Quaid, the sweetly handsome Ben Foster and the insanely hot Cam Gigandet, Pandorum didn’t disappoint as a movie overall.

The gist: when Foster is suddenly reawakened from his cryo-sleep, the spaceship he boarded years earlier seems adrift and on the verge of structural collapse.  On top of that, it’s also overrun by a race of super-strong, vicious, carnivorous aliens who brutally hunt down any human being they encounter.  His job is to save the ship in order to save anyone else left alive, but a cryo-sleep-induced memory loss doesn’t help.

While the concept might sound trite, the script is overall quite original and well developed.  The cast does a good job and the moody photography helps the very good makeup and visual effects.

I checked out the special features on the DVD and one of the deleted scenes was the usual sequel-setup one now routinely appended to virtually every Hollywood production.  Thankfully, it ended up on the cutting room floor since it wouldn’t have added anything to the story and it would have ruined the ending.  After all, if they want to do a sequel, they have plenty of reasons to do it anyway.

A nice sci-fi movie that I would recommend.

Grade: 7