Pandorum

When Corporal Bower (Ben Foster) wakes from hypersleep aboard the Elysium things are not looking good: the lights are out, the reactor is about to shut down, and the long, dark corridors of the vast spaceship have become a battleground in which a handful of feral humans fight to survive the predations of a host of flesh-eating monsters. More perplexing for the audience, he also seems to be trapped in a storyline cobbled together from undigested chunks of every sci-fi/horror film they've ever seen. While originality should not be overvalued in pulp fictions, all these portentous borrowings cannot disguise the fact that the film, as it lurches from set-piece to set-piece, has all the narrative complexity of a computer game. Yet Pandorum delivers its shocks and gore with gusto and should keep horror audiences happy. What is less forgiveable is the way it squanders the presence of the estimable Dennis Quaid.