Boston Globe

Pandorum is a dark, disquieting dream worth watching out for.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Stephen Cole

Handsomely mounted, emotionally involving sci-fi movies don't often show up in the darkened galaxies of our theatre chains. So Alvart's English-language debut is definitely a film you want to catch on the big screen. Just don't sit too close, lest you end up with a dose of pandorum.

Boston Globe by Justine Elias

Pandorum is a dark, disquieting dream worth watching out for.

Entertainment Weekly

How brazenly can one film rip off "Alien," "I Am Legend," and, somewhat oddly, "The Poseidon Adventure"?

Entertainment Weekly by Clark Collis

How brazenly can one film rip off "Alien," "I Am Legend," and, somewhat oddly, "The Poseidon Adventure"?

L.A. Weekly by Michelle Orange

Director Christian Alvart clearly attended horror’s new paint-shaker school of direction (motto: shaky = scary!), but the script’s twisty, end-of-the-world intrigue saves this otherwise leaden film from total self-destruction.

The A.V. Club by Nathan Rabin

Throw out the presence of Dennis Quaid, and the new science-fiction/horror snoozer Pandorum could easily pass for a Roger Corman cheapie.

Los Angeles Times

Keeps its audience in the dark -- literally and figuratively -- far too long to be of much use besides as a patience-trying exercise in reference spotting.

Variety

Special effects are none too convincing, while sound effects are of the cheaply jolting variety favored by producer Paul W.S. Anderson in his films as director ("Resident Evil," "Event Horizon"). Other tech credits are, like the pic as a whole, lazily derivative.

Chicago Reader

The sort of thing that makes you wish you were playing a video game instead.

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

According to the press notes, pandorum means “Orbital Dysfunctional Syndrome”; whatever that is, by the end of the movie I was convinced I had caught it.

The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

Claustrophobic, tedious sci-fi thriller.

Variety by Rob Nelson

Special effects are none too convincing, while sound effects are of the cheaply jolting variety favored by producer Paul W.S. Anderson in his films as director ("Resident Evil," "Event Horizon"). Other tech credits are, like the pic as a whole, lazily derivative.

Los Angeles Times by Glenn Whipp

Keeps its audience in the dark -- literally and figuratively -- far too long to be of much use besides as a patience-trying exercise in reference spotting.

Chicago Reader by Cliff Doerksen

The sort of thing that makes you wish you were playing a video game instead.

New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier

The movie soon turns into only a production-designed run-and-chase game, and our curiosity about what happened to Earth and the crew is teased and teased again until the movie’s big letdown of a reveal.