The title of the movie seems to be a fusion of the mythological words Pandora (Greco-Roman) and Pandemonium (Christianity) which seems to play a big part in the movie's direction. Its has common scifi tropes like creautre-on-a-space, space madness, and morlocks, ect. It was sold as a horror film but instead comes off as a Mystery/Adventure/Epic type film. I believe this movie is a worthy successor to the Alien franchise. And then later, when he is introduced to Gallo.ooh the interplay between the two is just so deliciously paranoid schizophrenic, it's riveting. He was totally the man you want at Mission Control when you are climbing around a ship with carnivorous aliens and No OSHA Compliance. He is so reassuring and steady in the role of Payton, I would have voted for him for president. His adherence to duty when the whole freaking world has gone mad is so endearing, it's almost heartbreaking. But he's still going to get to that reactor and restart it, and not For Great Justice or for a Dead Little Sister or even For Science. He's The Determinator, for sure, but there's no steely-eyed heroic gaze, no posturing, no cocky one-liners. I have no idea how he did this, but he managed to convey two traits that I would have thought impossible to combine. My second favorite thing about the movie was Ben Foster. The fluctuating power, the flickering lights, the greasy engineering rooms and-OH GOD AN ALIEN BLACK TEETH OH GOD. There, now that's out of the way, let me outline why this movie rocks. The reactor has been running for decades, and Bower wakes up within an hour of the catastrophic failure? That's.rather convenient.You'll have a nice buzz by the end of the movie.
Take a shot every time Bower takes one of those back-cracking falls onto something metal and/or pointy.
Just to satisfy the snarky, I will include these points: This is one of those everything-adds-up-at-the-end thrillers, and you will miss out on the best cookies if you don't watch carefully. I love Ben Foster's character, and I think Dennis Quaid was born to play this part. It only APPEARED that way.ĭon't know about everyone else and I'm sorry if this review isn't really clear but I'm going to say that I found this film very uplifting to say the least.įilm Should have been B-rate, but it's not I buy into the idea that sometimes, things only LOOK bad or SEEM bad, but once you get to see the whole picture, you realize that it was never really that bad to start with. But then it was revealed that they were already on the planet Tannis and had been there all along. He was trying to convince them that they had reached the boundaries of the known universe or that the universe had simply ended while they slept. He showed them a glimpse of what was outside and, using their limited view, he tried to get them to his way of thinking. Like the Devil, he only made things LOOK bad for the protagonists. Gallo was wrong, was probably lying the whole time or somehow both and to me it was awesome. I mean, I felt my heart get crushed by fear and despair when Gallo showed them that there were no stars to be seen beyond the bridge.Īnd yet, when it was shown that they were on the planet all along and had merely crashed into an ocean, I was filled with joy. When the protagonists were on the bridge and he was gloating at them of how God had died and that they were on their own because the universe itself was GONE, I got really scared. It's mentioned somewhere on the main page that Gallo was a satanic archetype of sorts and I have to agree with that.
I'm kind of a religious guy and a Catholic one at that. But what gets me the most is how the twist in the story comes out and how it affected me: Think about it, the ship makes a great "Closed Circle" horror story and the murderous mutants hunting the protagonists all make for a great survival horror feel. Film A Good Movie with a very enlightening and inspiring twist.
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