I rented Pandorum the night it was released on Blu-Ray and somehow it went unwatched for weeks. In an attempt to return it to Blockbuster I was told that I now owned it. I figured no big deal and brought it home only for it to get lost in the shuffle again. Until finally a few nights ago when my girlfriend and I stumbled upon it.

   Pandorum is directed by Christian Alvart (Antibodies) and stars Ben Foster ( 3:10 to Yuma, 30 Days of Night), Dennis Quaid (Vantage Point,Legion),Cam Gigandet ( Never Back Down, Twilight). Its a Sci-fi thriller based on a space ship that is five hundred miles away from Earth. Our main character Corporal Bower (Ben Foster) and Lt. Payton( Dennis Quaid) awake from hyper sleep to an empty ship, or so they think.

     Upon waking up Corporal Bower has no idea whats going on and we figure out that prolonged hyper-sleep causes partial memory loss. After a short time of being awake Lt. Payton finally comes out of hyper-sleep and together they begin to try to piece together the puzzle and figure out where the crew disappeared to. Corporal Bower goes out on a mission to not only find any other shipmates but to also repair the ships core reactor.  After finding his way out of the room he starts his mission to the reactor meeting two other ship mates who have adapted for survival on the ship. Together they make their way to the reactor and unravel the story more and more as they go along.  The story in itself is pretty interesting. We have found a planet that is almost identical to Earth called Tanis and we are sending this ship there with the astronauts. I don’t want to give it all away but it evolves as the movie goes on and reviled that it is a thicker plot then you would think. Pandorum was supposed to be the first in a trilogy but due to the low box office numbers they may never come out.

Pandorum is  available on DVD and Blu-Ray.