Pandorum [2009]

Pandorum [2009]

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Corporal Bower (Ben Foster) wakes up from hypersleep to find himself alone, with no memory of who he is or what happened to the crew of the 60,000-passenger sleeper ship, Elysium. He proceeds to wake up Lieutenant Payton (Dennis Quaid) who is also suffering from amnesia. They are unable either to access the ship's bridge or to communicate with anyone else, including the three-man flight crew team they are supposed to relieve. With the ship wrecked by power surges from a failing reactor, Bower assumes he must be a technician automatically awakened by the principal on-board computer in order to effect repairs.

Bower begins exploring the spacecraft under Payton's radio guidance. Noticing odd physical symptoms, Bower talks with Payton about Pandorum, a psychological condition brought on by extended periods of deep-space travel and hypersleep. Its symptoms and effects include severe paranoia, vivid hallucinations, and homicidal tendencies. Payton recounts the story of another ship, the Eden, which was destroyed when a crazed member of the flight crew jettisoned 5000 hibernating passengers into space, killing them.

As Bower continues searching the ship - partially in hopes of finding answers, and partially to find his wife - he encounters dead bodies and fast-moving humanoid creatures. Escaping from one of the creatures, he encounters other survivors: Manh (Cung Le), a Vietnamese man working in Agriculture, and Nadia (Antje Traue), a genetic engineer safeguarding millions of samples of plant and animal life from Earth, in a fight with each other in which he convinces them to assist him.

On the flight deck, Payton discovers another crew member, Corporal Gallo (Cam Gigandet), who reveals that he was part of the flight crew that received the final message from Earth. He claims that his other two crew mates suffered from an onset of Pandorum, and that he had to kill them in self-defense. Payton is wary of Gallo, noting his strange behavior.

Fleeing from the creatures, Bower, Manh, and Nadia meet Leland (Eddie Rouse), who explains what happened before they awakened. Earth, suffering from massive overpopulation, launched the Elysium on a 123-year voyage to an Earth-like planet called Tanis to create a settlement. When the ship received a message of Earth's destruction (either through war or natural disaster), one of the three bridge crew members went berserk. Killing his crewmates, he awakened most of the remaining crew to torture and manipulate them. Those who did not participate with the flight member's orders were banished to the hold of the ship, forced to scavenge for survival. When he grew bored of this, he went back into suspended animation, and left the rest of the crew awake. Genetic augmentations that the colonists had received prior to the mission - intended to accelerate adaptation to life on Tanis - caused them to adapt to the ship, turning them and their descendants into cannibalistic monsters.

Listening to this story, the survivors lose consciousness, having been gassed by their host. Upon awakening, they find themselves in shackles, with Leland preparing to kill them for food. Bower convinces Leland to allow them to restart the ship's nuclear reactor, which is about to shut down. En route, they pass through the passenger hypersleep chamber, which prompts Bower to recall the truth - his wife left him before he left Earth, and was left behind as the planet died. At the same time, he realizes that something is amiss about Payton.

The group fights their way down to the reactor, where the mutants have taken refuge. While Manh lures some of the cannibals away, Bower activates the reactor, averting disaster. After a climactic battle, Manh defeats the mutant leader, only to be killed by a seemingly harmless mutant child. Leland, Bower and Nadia make a break for the bridge.

Payton also regains his memories and realizes that Gallo is a hallucination. In truth HE is Corporal Gallo and lost all knowledge of his crimes and real identity during hypersleep. Soon afterwards he dispatches the newly-arrived Leland with a lethal stab from a sedative gun and retreats to the bridge. It is there where Bower and Nadia confront him and "Payton" concedes his true identity. Gallo then retracts an inner bulkhead to reveal a deep-sea environment outside the transparent outer hull. The ship is already on Tanis, having crash-landed and sunk to the bottom of an ocean. The 123-year mission, as it turns out, has been going on for 923 years.

Battling the symptoms of Pandorum, Bower attacks Gallo and accidentally causes a hull breach by cracking one of the windows. The water pressure breaks the screen and floods the ship, presumably drowning Gallo and any surviving mutants. Bower and Nadia escape to the ocean's surface in a hypersleep pod. The damage to the ship triggers an emergency evacuation, ejecting 1211 other hibernating, healthy colonists onto the surface of a beautiful, sunlit alien world.