As the credit "Produced by Paul W.S. Anderson" attests, this is hackwork of the highest order.

It takes a brilliant concept and stellar performances and buries them in banality and mediocre scares.

Pandorum is a hodge-podge of familiar sci-fi stuff, which feels as if it were adapted from a computer game.

It wants to transcend several genres at once, and by doing so become something original. Except it doesn’t realize these many goals, nor does it accomplish maybe just one or two.