For a suspenseful sci-fi thriller with a seriously eerie atmosphere, look no further than Pandorum. It's about two astronauts, Bowman and Shaws (Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster), who wake up from hypersleep to find that they're not on Earth. They soon realize they're basically in Hell: the ship’s A.I., S.A.R.A. H., assures them that they're in the universe’s afterlife, but no one is there to provide any explanation of just where they are. Little do they know that they've been knocked out of our universe into some kind of Hellish parallel universe, and at first it looks like just another bad dream. The Wachowskis (The Matrix) direct this semi-autobiographical film about two men coming to grips with their own mortality. Plot: A group of astronauts awaken from hypersleep to find out they are not on Earth anymore and their ship is in parallel universe. No one can explain where they are or what is happening. They must learn to trust each other and the disembodied voice of the computer as they try to survive and get their ship back. After an eerie, quiet opening sequence, we're introduced to two astronauts who've been cooped up in hypersleep and are now awake and trying to work out what's happened. They're on a ship that looks like it's been hit by a giant asteroid – but everyone is dead. Or at least they think everyone is dead – there seems to be a heartbeat coming from somewhere nearby. There isn't much time for speculation as the captain orders them both into suits as soon as possible as there's been some kind of hull breach. The film's storyline is slightly ambiguous in terms of what exactly has gone wrong. We guess they've been in a collision and have drifted off course through the universe. There's a bit of a mystery surrounding the character of Dr. William "Bill" Bowerman, played by Ben Foster from 3:10 to Yuma. He appears to be some kind of robot with superhuman powers which he demonstrates when he kills one of his colleagues without hesitation or remorse. It turns out that this is not the first time that Bowerman has killed someone on this mission and we soon find out why. We're also given a weird glimpse of his past in flashback sequences where he seems to be talking about himself in the third person. Not much time is spent in hypersleep, and when they escape into the zero-gravity corridors that lead to the ship's airlocks, they discover that everyone has died. But when they start to explore further, Bowerman appears. The captain wisely orders them back inside their ship, but Bowerman follows them to the airlock control panel. 8eeb4e9f32 16
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