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Two
crew members of a spaceship wake up from hypersleep to discover that all their
colleagues are missing. Despite this, it appears that they are not alone.
Director: Christian
Alvart
Writers: Travis
Milloy (screenplay), Travis Milloy (story)
Stars: Dennis
Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet
Summaries
Two
crew members of a spaceship wake up from hypersleep to discover that all their
colleagues are missing. Despite this, it appears that they are not alone.
—grants
Two
crew members are stranded on a spacecraft and quickly - and horrifically -
realize they are not alone. Two astronauts awaken in a hyper-sleep chamber
aboard a seemingly abandoned spacecraft. It's pitch black, they are
disoriented, and the only sound is a low rumble and creak from the belly of the
ship. They can't remember anything: Who are they? What is their mission? With
Lt. Payton staying behind to guide him via radio transmitter, Cpl. Bower
ventures deep into the ship and begins to uncover a terrifying reality. Slowly
the spacecraft's shocking, deadly secrets are revealed...and the astronauts
find their own survival is more important than they could ever have imagined.
—Overture
Films
In
2174, the natural resources of Earth are exhausted and the spacecraft Elysium
is launched to the planet Tanis in the last hope of mankind. Due to the long
travel, the crew-members are divided in teams that travel in extended
hyper-sleep, rotating in shifts along the trip. When Corporal Bower from Flight
Team 5 wakes up due to a malfunctioning of his chamber, he is disoriented and
with amnesia. But soon he realizes that the reactor is not working and
provoking power surges in the ship. Then Lieutenant Payton also awakes and they
find that they are locked in a room but the access door to the bridge is not
reactivated. Bower moves through the ventilation trunk trying to open the door
from outside. Sooner he discovers that there is some weird threatening life
form in the ship and running is always the best option to survive. When he
meets the biologist Nadia and the strong farmer Manh, they team up trying to
reach the reactor and save their lives. Meanwhile, Payton rescues Corporal
Gallo in the room, but the menace of the paranoid Pandorum psychological trauma
seems to be affecting Gallo.
—Claudio
Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
It
is the year 2174. The spaceship Elysium is sent to colonise a distant planet.
Several years into the voyage, two crew members wake up from hypersleep to
discover that all their colleagues are missing. Despite this, it appears that
they are not alone.
—grants
Synopsis
The
film begins in space with title cards appearing, referencing the technological
evolution of space travel. Along with the population on Earth growing to the
point of it exceeding the carry capacity and humanity has fought over the last natural
resources. In the year 2174, a ship called Elysium is launched. In space, we
see the massive ship flying towards the stars. On the bridge of the ship,
officers receive a message from Earth. The message is "You're all that's
left of us. Good luck, God Bless, and God speed".
Bower
(Ben Foster) wakes up from his hyper-sleep pod and panics from claustrophobia
due to being in a closed space. He manages to free himself from the pod and
rips out the tubes going into his body. He sees that he has a series of numbers
tattooed on his arm. After peeling away his dead skin, he sees that he is
alone. Not knowing what's going on, he finds a locker with his name on it and
puts on some clothes. He finds a picture of a woman. He notices a couple of
other pods nearby. A pod for Cooper is empty. Another pod still has Payton
(Dennis Quad) inside. Bower tries to wake Payton up by slamming something
against the sealed pod, but he hardly makes a scratch on it. He tries to open
the door of the room but it's locked. A power surge shakes the ship, causing
Payton to finally wake up. Both men are suffering from memory loss due the
General Anesthesia they received in hyper-sleep and can't remember what the
mission is nor the destination. Payton is a Lieutenant and Bower is a Corporal.
They realize that something's wrong since they're all alone. The numbers
tattooed on their arms indicate which group they belong to. Another power surge
shakes the ship and Bower realizes that he's an engineer. Something's wrong
with the reactor and he needs to fix it. Payton gets a nearby command center
working by using the auxiliary power. He tries to call for help but no one
answers. They hear a noise coming from a nearby vent.
Payton
decides that they need to find the crew members and get to the bridge to see
what's happening. He sends Bower to find a way out in the vents while he stays
behind at the command center to guide him around the ship. The vents are filled
with tubes and are hard to crawl through. Bower tries to find his way to
another room but the vents look endless and run in every direction. After
feeling like he's going in circles, he panics and becomes claustrophobic again.
Payton via radio calms Bower down by joking that he got the door open. Bower
falls down a shaft and lands face-first on a grate. The fall causes him to lose
contact with Payton. Bower lights a glow stick and sees Cooper's decomposing
corpse right next to him. He falls through the grate and ends up in a storage
compartment. Bower gets up but still can't communicate with Payton. The ship's
corridors are long and dark.
While
searching around, Bower comes across a woman, (named Nadia in the credits,
Antje Traue), trying to open a door. He tries to talk to her, but she quickly
runs away. While chasing after her, he sees that she has seemingly stopped in a
corridor. He tries to tell her that he's part of the crew and he needs to know
what's going on. She remains silent. He shines his light on the figure and sees
that it's not a woman but a man; a man who has been hung by his neck and is his
stomach is cut opened. The woman pops up and attacks Bower, mugging him at
knife point. She holds him down, taking his supplies, and orders him to remove
his shoes as she only has toeless socks on her feet. She threaten to gut him if
he resists. But suddenly they both hear screeching nearby.
Nadia
runs away and Bower is left confused. He sees a blue light at the end of the
corridor and the screeching gets louder. The blue lights are blow torches
attached to spears carried by pale, scar covered, and armor wearing humanoid
creatures (called The Hunters in the credits). The half-eaten man is pulled up
and devoured. Bower runs back to the room he came through and hides in the
storage compartment. While the creature looks for him, Payton's voice comes
through the radio. The creature tears open the compartment and snatches
Cooper's body. After the creature leaves, Bower is scared, telling Payton that
something not human is on-board the ship.
Their
memories start to return and remembers the mission. Payton says that there is
no rescue nor turning back and turns out that the Elysium is not hauling cargo
but that they are the cargo. The destination was Earth-like planet called Tanis
which was one way ticket to colonize. The crew has been split into
groups/shifts to work with 60,000 passengers on board. At the end of a groups
turn (a couple of years), they are supposed to wake up the next group and
debrief them. Bower also gets a childhood flashback remembering Tanis being
discovered, watching it on television with his family being inspired by the
idea of sending people up there. Bower then remembers his wife and that
families of the crew were allowed to travel on the ship. Bower stops being
scared and becomes desperate to find her before the creatures do. He also
remembers that Payton has a wife as well. Payton tries to be the voice of
reason and convince him to continue making his way to the reactor. If Bower can
fix it, the power will come back on for the ship and they can implement
security measures.
Bower
looks around and finds a security room. He finds a non-lethal anti-riot gun
which Payton says is deadly up-close and straps it to his arm. He goes into the
corridors again and sees a hanged man. He thinks that he's going crazy since it
looks like the same hanged man from before. However, upon closer inspection he
finds that the man is different (he's still alive and in one piece). Bower cuts
him down and is introduced to Shepard (Norman Reedus). Shepard is part of
another group and has been by himself for a long time. Bower says that his
commanding officer want's to know what's happening. Shepard says that there's
no commanding officer and covers himself in oil to cover his scent from the
creatures. He tries to leave but sees blue lights coming towards them. The
creatures chase Bower and Shepard through the ship. The creatures are fast and
have sharp weapons. They eventually string Shepard back up and Bower tries to
shoot the creatures in order to save him, but his shot is blocked by a glass
door. The creatures cut Shepard's stomach open, feeding on him, and they notice
Bower which results in a chase. He runs into a man (named Mahn in the credits,
Cung Le), who helps him escape from them but loses communication with Payton.
Bower thanks him but can't understand Manh's language but still manages to
communicate that he's part of the crew. He sees Manh's tattoo and sees that
he's part of the agriculture crew. He tells him that he's going to start up the
reactor and tells Manh to stay put. Meanwhile, Payton starts to get a bloody
nose and gets increasingly scared that he can't talk to Bower.
Bower
finds a housing container that acts as a living quarters. He sees that there
are several other containers as well and food. Bower is attacked by Nadia
again, making fall from a great distance. However, instead of gutting him like
she said she would, she shows sympathy by asking if he is okay, then Manh pops
up to defend Bower again. As Nadia and Manh fight, Bower fires off a shot into
the air. He acts as the voice of reason, telling her that he understands that
its felt like "every man for himself" and she wants to survive, but
solidarity is the far more effective survival strategy. Bower tells Nadia that
they need to start the reactor or else they'll lose everything, but she says
that no one has ever came back from going that far down. Bower asks who she is
but Nadia acts aloof, saying "nobody". She is a very cynical woman
and doesn't trust him, putting a knife to his neck when he touches her. But
eventually agrees to show him the way to the reactor after founding out he is
apart of the flight crew(whom she thought was all dead) as he could fly the
ship and land it.
They
come across a hallway with water dipping from the ceiling and find themselves
surrounded by creatures. A power surge shakes the ship, allowing Nadia to
activate a door open. The creatures close in on them and Mahn holds up his
spear unwilling to go down without a fight. They barely make it inside and seal
the door where reveals some more about herself. Nadia has been awake for months
and there use to be five of them that protected this room. To them it seemed
worth protecting as it's an Embryonic chamber holding livestock and wildlife
re-population that holds the world they are going to live in, stating that the
ship is a Noah's Ark. She is a former biologist from Germany who spend seven
years working for the Brandenburg Institute genetic sampling team collecting
and readying earth's biosphere for the trip to Tanis. Her motive for enlisting
on the mission was because she was a workaholic and it didn't felt right
handing off the genetic samples so she volunteered to go along with it. She
pours her heart out and broods about her amnesiac state, saying that she can
remember the vault and its systems but she can't remember where she grew up or
her brother's name. As a quirk she practices entomophagy, where she eats
grasshoppers stating that it is good for protein and offers Bower some. He
accepts and they eat together which disgusts Mahn.
After
a while, Nadia leads the team through a part of the ship that holds civilian
pods, telling them to keep quit and not slow her down. Bower notices that the
majority of the pods are empty. Nadia tells him that it's the creatures hunting
ground and tells them to hurry. Bower wonders if his wife is there, but Nadia
tells him that the families of the crew are held in another area of the ship.
Mahn gets distracted by something and holds his spear up. Bower quietly tells
him to move but he don't, knowing something is following them. Nadia coldly
says that they should leave him behind as he is slowing them down. Bower
objects at first but he has no choice but to keep moving.
Bower
suddenly disappears. Nadia walks over to where he was and falls down a grate.
Bower lights up a glow stick and they both see that they've fallen into a
massive pit of bones and gore. The creatures appear above the grate and move
through the area. Bower climbs out of the pit first but keeps Nadia at bay.
While he looks around, he's attacked by a creature. Bower is thrashed around
while suffering from Pandorum and Manh comes to defend him again. He stabs the
creature in the head, but it's still alive. Nadia manages to stab it in the leg
but is thrashed around as well. Bower manages to stab it in the chest, and the
trio repeatedly stab it until it's dead. The other creatures were watching and
their leader gives them a case to run. It roars to its mates and some jump on
the defeated creature and begin to devour it while others give chase to the
trio. They come into another area and witness a man wake up from his pod. Bower
attempts to help him but is too late as the man is stabbed in the head and
eaten by the creatures. However, they mention to escape.
Meanwhile,
Payton continues to hear more and more noise coming from the vent. He grabs a
pipe and climbs up. As he enters the vent, through the mass of hoses and wires,
he sees a human arm reach out for him. Gallo (Cam Gigandet) is naked and
covered in blood/slime and Payton pulls him through and locks the vent. Gallo
says that he came from the bridge before passing out.
The
group appear to be lost and Bower complains that he thought Nadia knew where
they were going. Nadia then irritably tells him that she was just trying to
save their lives. They then take refuge in a room covered in algae and seal the
door shut. Back to Bower and his team. They find that they are not alone. A
hermit (named Leland in the credits, Eddie Rouse) has been living in the room
for years now. Leland is situated on a balcony above the team so that they
can't reach him. He makes them some food which made with the algae and welcomes
them to his home.
Back
to Payton; Gallo is passed out. Payton inspects his arm and sees that he's part
of the previous group. Gallo wakes up and asks Payton what he's doing. Payton
asks where they are and Gallo states that all the stars look alike, that they
are lost in space. Some of the blood on Gallo is from someone else, which makes
Payton suspicious. Gallo says that he was with two other crew members, but they
suffered from Pandorum (i.e. space madness) and he was forced to kill them.
Payton loads a needle gun with a shot to calm Gallo down, but he refuses to
take it and becomes hostile. He accuses Payton of having Pandorum and insists
that he is the one who needs the shot instead.
Meanwhile,
Nadia tries to clean her cut wounds that she received from their battle with
pieces of her dirty clothing. Bower shows concern and asks if it is safe to
clean herself with that. But Nadia sarcastically responds with sass saying that
its nothing compared to facing those things. This leads to them having a
conservation about what they are where Bower jokes about them being Aliens to
lighten the mood. She tells him her theory that the creatures are actually
passengers. In all the hyper-sleep pods, everyone was supplied with an accelerator
to speed up adaptation and jump evolution to adjust to the conditions on Tanis.
Instead, it could have made some people adapted to the ship. However, Bower
questions why they nor Leland (who has been awaken for years) hasn't adapted at
all. Nadia believes that the creatures may have been on the ship far longer
than any of them.
Gallo
tells Payton how Pandorum causes extreme paranoia and how it has an emotional
trigger. What caused it with his crew is that Earth had mysteriously vanished
and the thousands of people on the ship are all that's left of humanity -
Leland tells the team what happened afterward based on accounts of other
passengers and drawings depicted on the walls in his lair. Leland states that
he "would grow into manhood" and Gallo is depicted with something
abnormal with his mind as electric sparks appear around his head and blood is
drawn around his noses. This strongly hints that he developed Pandorum. This
strongly hints that had awaken other passengers to play "nasty little games"
as he puts it. He would be their master or slayer to them, both "God and
the Devil" as that is what some would say. He would send those who had
behaved to exile themselves in the cargo hold to play nasty little game. This
game involved them performing similar activities to that of the Hunters, where
they hung each other on ropes, cutting their stomachs open, and cannibalizing
each other. The drawings depicting the events show these passengers grabbing
their heads as blood pours from their noses and electric sparks appear around
them. Which suggests that Gallo drove them mad and Pandorum was the cause of
the cannibalistic behavior on the ship. Eventually he went back into
hyper-sleep. As he slept, a whole new world of evil grew as Leland puts it.
Then the group is gassed by him while Gallo watches Payton go mad from the
truth, waiting...
Bower
wakes up to find himself, Nadia, and Manh hung upside down in the room. Leland
is a survivalist who plans on eating them for food, which he has been doing for
years with both human and the creatures. Nadia mouths off and Leland stabs her
in the chest. He's about to fillet her when a power surge shakes the ship. He
states that with Earth gone and the ship not working, there is nothing else
left to live for than to go by his survival instincts and he wouldn't have
survived this long if he had a heart. It's just survival of the fittest now, or
maybe the brightest, as he puts it. Bower tells him that it was the last power
surge. If they don't start the reactor within the hour, everything in the ship
will shut down for good. Bower says that he understands why Leland is doing
what he is doing and that no one was going to judge him, with Leland showing
remorse for what he has done for all these years. Leland cuts them down and makes
them walk through the ship at gunpoint with Bower's weapon.
Meanwhile,
things get heated with Gallo and Payton. Gallo thinks that they should evacuate
the ship while they still can, but Payton is confident that Bower will fix the
reactor. Gallo insists that Payton is starting to exhibit signs of Pandorum.
Payton says that Gallo is crazy and continues to order him to "stand
down".
The
team comes across a hunter child feeding on algae covering the ship which Mahn
tries to kill but Nadia stops him confusing it for human and it alerts other
hunters. They escape to a part of the ship that holds the pods for families of
the crew where all of them appear to be empty and Bower believes that they are
all dead. Nadia appears to have warmed up to Bower after he saved his life and
cares about him founding his wife, asking him if he thinks that she is here
somewhere. But he remembers that the woman in the photo is no longer his wife
and isn't on the ship. She left him and he had nothing left on Earth, so he
signed up to be the engineer on the mission to found a place in history. This
means that she vanished along with Earth. Out of empathy Nadia, tries to give
emotional support to help him remain optimistic by saying she saved his life by
leaving him. But he is so consumed by grief he becomes pessimistic, believing
that there is nothing left to go back, which almost makes him give up on the
mission. But Nadia continues to be optimistic and gets him motivated again by
saying they were meant to go on and they were meant to survive, and now it's
more important than ever. Bower than sees the pod for Paytons wife and
remembers her name. He also remembers something else about Payton....
The
team makes it to the reactor but find that below it is the sleeping ground for
the creatures. Bower tries to walk across a catwalk to the reactor but it gives
way. Manh holds onto the catwalk while Nadia runs across to help Bower. Seeing
that Manh can't hold the weight of both of them, Bower allows himself to fall
down to where the creatures are. Bower covers himself with skin/slime so that
the creatures won't pick up his scent. He then crawls amongst them to get to
the ladder leading up to the reactor. Once he gets there, Leland accidentally
drops a light down to where the creatures are, waking them all up. Leland runs
away while Manh drops the catwalk, crushing a couple of creatures. He makes
noises and leads the creatures away from Bower & Nadia. Bower climbs up to
the reactor and turns on the power, which fries some creatures in the process.
Gallo
takes control of the needle gun and forces Payton to open his pod. Gallo has
Payton start the ejection sequence and gets inside. However, Payton tricks
Gallo and instead just locks him inside the pod.
Elsewhere,
Manh manages to elude the hunters but then runs into the leader. Mahn is again
unwilling to go down without a fight. The leader notices this and tosses him a
spear to fight back with but the fight is mostly one sided. The leader pins
Manh against a wall and starts to eat his stomach. Manh grabs a knife and
repeatedly stabs the leader in the head until it dies. Apparently the creature
was teaching its young how to fight, as Manh then turns around to find it's
child staring at him. He contemplates killing the child, but lowers his knife.
The child in turn slices Manh's throat open. Manh falls to the ground and the
child begins to feed.
Bower
turns on the reactor, providing power to the ship (which opens the door to the
bridge). Payton is happy that Bower succeeded, but then finds that Gallo has
escaped from his pod. Gallo attacks Payton and they fight for control over the
needle gun. During the fight, their arms merge together. It's shown that Payton
is the only person there and has been fighting himself. After Payton stabs
himself in the leg with the needle, Leland winds up in the command center.
Payton promptly fires the needle gun into Leland's eye, rendering him
unconscious.
Bower
and Nadia make it back to the bridge while being chased by cannibals. They lock
the door and find Payton already there. Bower knew Payton's wife and knew the
real Payton. It's revealed that "Payton" is actually Gallo! He was
interacting with a younger version of himself (how he looked when he first
started working on the ship) playing mind games with himself like he did with
the passengers. Bower remembers what the real Payton looks like and knows that
Gallo is the "God & Devil" from the story. When he went back to
hyper-sleep, he got into Payton's pod instead of his own. Gallo says that
doesn't remember what life was like before the flight and the ship is all he
has left. Bower asks Gallo where exactly they are. After opening the window
shields, all they can see is darkness and Bower panics from claustrophobia
feeling that there is no escape. This, the revelation of the fate of Earth, and
his ex-wife is too much for Bower and the effects of Pandorum start to catch up
to him.
It's
revealed that Gallo has became so paranoid that has has turned into an
antihumanist. Because human civilization had ruin Earth's resources with
overpopulation, he has come to believe that moralistic altruism is petty and
life eating life like in the wildness is perfect. He tells Bower that with the
ship they can create a new world with the ship (alluding to Nadia's theory) but
in a wild primitive state. Meaning that he purposefully created the creatures
that now roam the ship. He now attempts to exploit Bower's descent into madness
like he did with the paranoid passengers and convert him to savagery.
It
turns out that Gallo was lying earlier about them being lost in space. The
flight log shows they have been on the ship for 923 years and realize that
Elysium has been on Tanis the entire time, crash-landed in an ocean underwater.
The creatures are not the passengers, nor did the passengers mutated but
instead they are their descendants who evolved into a new species after
generations of ecological selection, continuing the game Gallo had started with
their ancestors as tradition. Gallo then attacks Bower but Nadia tries to stop
him but due to her injury she is overpowered. Bower hallucinates about
creatures trying to break into the bridge. Then Nadia sees fish swimming past
the ship. Gallo begins to press Bower's face against the chair until he finally
succumbs to Pandorum and Nadia tries to defend him. But due to her stab wound
Gallo throws her off and advances on her with her own knife. Bower, still
hallucinating, shoots a compartment (thinking a creature is coming through),
causing a piece to crack the window. Nadia calls out to Bower snapping out of
his delirium and he grabs her just in time before the windows break from the
water pressure, flooding the ship with water. They run off leaving Gallo drowns
along with Leland and the cannibals.
Bower
and Nadia run back to Bower's pod. They both get in and seal the door shut, but
a lot of water gets in as well. Bower lets Nadia have his air mask while he
almost drowns. The pod pops out of the surface of the ocean. Bower and Nadia
survive and look around the alien planet. Bower comforts her telling her that
it's safe to awake up now and she smiles. The ship, experiencing a hull breach,
enacts the evacuation plan and ejects all the remaining pods. Soon the rest of
the pods pop out of the ocean and the remaining people start to wake up. Bower
smiles and puts his head on Nadia's in relief that they have completed their
mission.
The
film ends with text, stating that the population on Tanis year ONE is 1,213
humans. Bower had found a place in history.
User
Reviews
I
simply loved the posters for PANDORUM, they were edgy and graphic enough to
make me want to give this movie a shot even thou i'm not a Dennis Quaid fan at
all. I gave it a shot earlier today and i have to say it was a pretty good
movie.
PANDORUM
is your classic outer space scifi movie which we really haven't had for
sometime. I do have to say the aliens kind of reminded me of the creatures in
the movie DESCENT just with armor. The movie itself had a feel of the original
ALIEN movie. Now to what I enjoyed about this movie was the way the story
evolved into a edge of your seat thriller with twist after twist. The story is
what separates this from other spaceship, scifi movies. Even leaves the viewer
thinking "what if" this happens. PANDORUM is a good way to enter this
fall season. Great story, good effects, easy story to follow, just enough gore
to satisfy everyone and not to much Dennis Quaid to make me happy!
Details
Country: Germany |
UK | USA
Language: English |
Vietnamese | German
Release
Date:
25 September 2009 (USA)
Also Known
As: Pandorum
Filming
Locations:
Studio Babelsberg, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
Box
Office
Budget: $33,000,000
(estimated)
Opening
Weekend USA: $4,424,126, 27 September 2009
Gross USA: $10,330,853
Cumulative
Worldwide Gross: $20,648,328
Company
Credits
Production
Co: Constantin Film, Impact Pictures, Studio Babelsberg
Technical
Specs
Runtime: 108 min
Sound Mix: Dolby
Digital | DTS (uncredited)
Color: Color
Aspect
Ratio:
2.35 : 1
