Pandorum

This newly released under-rated film staring Dennis Quaid as Payton and Ben Fosters as Bower the ships technical officer. After waking up from a pre-longed hyper sleep with their memory not all that in-tacked, they soon realise there is something not right about the ship. The deserted cavernous corridors all lie empty and eerily quiet. Bower and our man Payton manage to bump into each other after a small scour around the huge ship.
They try and piece together what has happened and what there mission was in the first place, but there isn't much room for talking as they soon discover what has went wrong when Bower is chased by blood thirsty monsters after his insides.

The movie was a good watch, alot better than I had ever expected. I really did think it was going to be a cheap thrills sci-fi movie with gore chucked in for good measure. I didn't really expect it to have any real underbelly of story to it. I am glad to say that after watching a short portion of the movie I was surprised at the level of acting and actual real well thought out plot-points. Not to say that some of it was rather predictable, but what movie isn't at some point. It didn't go for cheap thrills that it could have went for, it took its time establishing the characters and the setting they were in before doing any real action/gore

The director knew the value of letting the audience connect with the characters before throwing them in harms way. Although it did feel rather like a computer game with Payton talking to Bower over a walkie talkie. Not to say this is a bad thing, but I did see plenty of computer game influence in this movie.

I was shockingly taken by this movie from the get-go, the whole feel of the movie felt raw and real. I was genuinely captivated by the high level of acting by Dennis and Ben Fosters, I haven't seen Fosters in too many movies before but he is an underrated actor who really knows his stuff, would like to see him in more movies in the future. As for Dennin Quaid he wasn't a typical american actor in this one, like he is in every other movie I've seen him in. He didn't have any of those American quotes they seem to throw him at such as 'Mission is a Go!' It did seem like he actually or someone down the line and put some effort into this character.

The movie which was obviously pitched as Aliens/Event Horizon was a dam good rip-off, it seemed to do what it set out to do. It didn't get carried away with itself at any point, I didn't feel disconnected from what was going on at any stage through-out the movie. It was a nice good packaged movie that had enough twist and turns in it to keep you interested through-out. The storyline surprised me at many points, the writer and director knew how to mislead the audience on what was going on, in a good way. The movie didn't trip itself up on being to complicated, it had twists and turns yes, but I didn't ever need to think what was happening on screen. Although the film geography as Paul pointed out was not the best I've ever seen, this could have been solved with just one scene of them looking at the ships map to see where they are going. This wasn't enough to trip it up, it didn't really disrupt the movie and wasn't all that essential to the plot.

Over all a pleasant surprise from a movie I had to high expectations for. I will go as far to say I will be buying this when it comes out on DVD