PANDORUM (15).

Sci-Fi/Action/Thriller. Ben Foster, Dennis Quaid, Antje Traue, Cung Le, Cam Gigandet. Director: Christian Alvart.

Paul W.S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt haul the sets of their 1997 collaboration Event Horizon out of storage and give them a new lick of paint for this deep space thriller directed by Christian Alvart (Antibodies).

The year is 2174 and the battle for Earth’s limited resources has reached boiling point.

We launch the spaceship Elysium. On board are thousands of men, women and children, bound for the distant planet of Tannis, which can sustain human life.

During the journey, astronaut Corporal Bower (Foster) wakes from hypersleep in the bowels of the Elysium with no memory of his mission, closely followed by his superior, Lieutenant Payton (Quaid).

As Bower makes his way through the ship, he realises that something is dreadfully wrong: a race of carnivorous, alien creatures is aboard the vessel, hunting human prey.

The nightmare is as much for the two-dimensional characters as for us because Pandorum is a headache-inducing game of cat and mouse in a labyrinth of dimly lit tunnels that pales next to Alien and its sequel.

Pandorum is essentially an hour and a half of running and screaming interspersed with scenes of dismemberment.