Pandorum
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Pandorum |
| Original title | Pandorum |
| Country of production |
Germany , Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christian Alvart |
| script | Travis Milloy |
| production |
Robert Kulzer , Paul WS Anderson , Jeremy Bolt |
| music | Michl Britsch |
| camera | Wedigo von Schultzendorff |
| cut | Philipp Stahl |
| occupation | |
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Pandorum is a German-British science fiction - thriller from director Christian Alvart from 2009. The shooting took place in 2008 in the Babelsberg film studios in Potsdam , as well as in Berlin instead. The film opened in German cinemas on October 1, 2009.
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The two astronauts Bower and Payton wake up in a spaceship called "Elysium" from an artificial deep sleep, the result of which is a temporary loss of memory. At first they don't know where they are or what their real mission is. It is not possible for them to contact the bridge or other crew members. They are also unable to leave the quarters in which they woke up from their deep sleep through the lock.
While trying to gain access to the bridge in other ways, Bower pushes further and further into the spaceship, which seems to be floating in space with almost no energy and is exposed to periodic fluctuations in energy. Payton directs him by radio from a command console that the two of them were able to put into operation. Little by little, Bower finds corpses and survivors and has to discover that there are also non-human-looking, aggressive creatures on board that hunt people and feed on them.
The small group of survivors - apart from Bower, the biologist Nadia, the agricultural worker Manh and the Koch Leland - begins to fight their way to the reactor of the ship, which is about to fail and is causing the energy fluctuations. From Leland, who initially tried to eat the other survivors, they learn that the earth was destroyed shortly after the start of the spaceship and that they are the last human survivors on board a colony ship. The aim of the mission is to colonize the earth-like planet Tanis after 123 years of flight, as the earth suffered from extreme overpopulation. As a theory for the existence of the creatures, Leland tells that one crew member acted out as a god. This woke up some crew members and passengers and released them. Due to an artificial adaptation mutagen, which was actually intended for the colonists to adapt quickly to Tanis, but which led to adaptation to the struggle for survival in the defective Elysium, the colonists mutated into the creatures. Also on board some crew members suffer from a psychosis caused by the long space flight , called Pandorum. Those affected suffer from extreme paranoia and lively delusions .
Meanwhile, Payton finds another survivor, Gallo, who appears to be suffering from Pandorum and is extremely suspicious of Payton. Gallo tries hysterically to leave the ship, as he too has recognized the impending reactor failure. Payton learns that Gallo was on duty on the bridge at the time the news of Earth's destruction arrived. In a fight between the two, Gallo melts into himself before Payton's eyes, and Payton realizes that Gallo was just a second incarnation of himself, imagined in his Pandorum madness.
Meanwhile, Bower succeeds in restarting the reactor and thus completely restoring the ship's energy supply. Chased by the creatures, the small group of survivors flees back to the bridge and Payton to regain control of the ship.
Once there, Bower and Nadia find that the Elysium arrived at the target planet a long time ago, landed there automatically at the time and has now been on the ocean floor for 962 years. Bower now knows through the returning memory that the alleged Payton is not his superior Payton. It turns out that Payton is actually Gallo, delusional and delusional since the news of the fall of the earth, who killed his comrades at the time, and was probably also the god-playing crew member Leland was talking about. During the last fight on the ship, Bower, who is now suffering from symptoms of Pandorum, damages the hull, the spaceship is flooded and Gallo drowns on the bridge. At the last second, Nadia and Bower are able to rescue themselves from the ship using his hypersleep cabin, which also serves as an escape pod, and float to the surface of the water.
When the shell breaks, the on-board computer starts the automatic evacuation through which all other people in deep sleep are shot to the surface of the sea with their escape pods.
In the end, colonization of the new planet can begin with a total of 1213 survivors - from the original 60,000.
Reviews
According to Rotten Tomatoes , 28% of the 83 English-language film reviews recorded there rated the film as positive. In summary, it says: "While it may be satisfying for extreme science fiction fans, Pandorum's bloated and well-known plot lets the film drift aimlessly through space."
“Conclusion: Exciting, gloomy, visually excellent, all-shocker who takes its science fiction aspect seriously, which despite some conventional elements brings a breath of fresh air to the genre. A celebration for fans in any case. "
“Hints, tearing images and an emotional soundtrack builds up a lot of tension right from the start - only to crumble again after about half an hour. Because with the surprising appearance of other people, a continuous dialogue begins between everyone and everyone, through which the film is practically chattered to death. So you have to sit out the middle part of the film patiently in order to be reconciled with several surprises at the end. Conclusion: A decent B-picture at best, which sells its stars and sometimes great backdrops for below value. "
"Well-developed science fiction thriller with B-movie flair that places little value on logic and coherence, but instead, as a sometimes very violent dystopia, charges the apocalyptic specifications of the genre with a lot of horror and ambitious body symbolism."
In 2011 the film received the special prize for German productions of the Curt Siodmak Prize .
Web links
- Pandorum in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jana Haase: Weird, crooked, round . In: Potsdam's latest news . October 2, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2016.
- ↑ Pandorum. RottenTomatoes, accessed March 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Ralph Zlabinger: movie review . In: Filmtipps.at . Retrieved November 17, 2016.
- ^ Film review . In: Cinema . Retrieved November 17, 2016.
- ↑ Pandorum. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .