Pandorum - D+

On DVD and Blu-ray

On a ship in deep space, Bower (Ben Foster) awakens to find himself alone with Payton (Dennis Quaid). Their supervising crew is missing and there are fast moving cannibalistic creatures (which look exactly like The Descent's monsters) all over the ship. As they strive to find out what went wrong, they're in a race against time with the malfunctioning ship and a psychosis brought on by the deep space hibernation.

The violence is overly gruesome and meaningless. The characters don't know who they are and neither do we which makes them far from engaging. Foster has an intense presence, but isn't given time to act - just to shout and run. This represents a new career-low for the moribund Quaid, who could be excused if he were the lead or if there were any interesting ideas or insight. But writer Travis Milloy is more interested in the horror genre than science fiction. The film even threatens to turn into torture porn in one scene. Director Christian Alvart stages each scene like an ADHD afflicted 8 year old who just ate all of his Halloween candy. D+