It wants to transcend several genres at once, and by doing so become something original. Except it doesn’t realize these many goals, nor does it accomplish maybe just one or two.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 30, 2023

It’s basically a zombie movie set-up on an industrial spaceship, a fast-moving B-movie that throws out lots of theories that don’t stand up to the light of reason and then moves on to the next chase and feeding frenzy by the mutant hordes.

| Aug 19, 2023

Episode 32: Captive State / Pandorum / Mirror Image / Us

| Original Score: 68/100 | Sep 14, 2021

Though the graphic violence should sate fans of zombie flicks or slashers, the editing and structuring here leave much to be desired for patrons of smart sci-fi/horror.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Nov 29, 2020

An eerie, psychologically involving, and emotionally resonant space thriller that never achieves its potential.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 19, 2020

Alvar has a definite talent for the visual aspects of storytelling, so even when the plot comes off of the rails the film looks pretty, and he's fond of cranking up the tension, which drives the film speedily along.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 14, 2020

This movie had way too little science in it and way too much running around boringly. And the monsters? Not even cool.

| May 23, 2018

I actually enjoyed Pandorum, and I absolutely did not think I would. I'm just as surprised as you are.

| Jan 23, 2018

Well-paced and boasting impressive production design and a decidedly gloomy atmosphere, but execution, no matter how efficient, is no match for originality.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 8, 2017

As the credit "Produced by Paul W.S. Anderson" attests, this is hackwork of the highest order.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

[Pandorum] might seem like a potentially cool movie, but unfortunately the key word is "potentially".

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 15, 2010

It takes a brilliant concept and stellar performances and buries them in banality and mediocre scares.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 12, 2010

A gorgeous production design can't save the picture from trying too hard to dazzle with very little inspiration, and while Pandorum is easy to stare at, it can be a seriously punishing sit.

| Original Score: D+ | Jun 2, 2010

A little bit 'Eden Log,' a little bit 'Descent,' and a whole lot of 'Alien,' 'Pandorum' ultimately succeeds as a watchable sci-fi/horror/mystery.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 20, 2010

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 27, 2010

I liked this movie even more on the second viewing. The monsters were trivial, but the plot was intriguing. Granted you would have to be a hard-core sci-fi fan to like this. Paul Chambers, CNN.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 1, 2010

Veering between alarmist adventure on other planets and assault on viewer senses here at home, the claustrophobic cinematic terrorism seems to come awfully close to wielding a movie as a deadly weapon up on the screen.

| Dec 28, 2009

full review at Movies for the Masses

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 10, 2009

An unusually unpleasant and unwatchable sci-fi endeavor...

| Original Score: 0/4 | Nov 1, 2009

Clenches its teeth grimly as it blunders through its overstuffed plot.

| Original Score: D | Oct 11, 2009