I forgot to mention that the size of the ship is not well established, particularly the length. We hear them talk about getting to the bridge and getting to the reactor, but there isn’t a reliable way for the audience to interpret the distance since they don’t talk about it in feet/meters or miles/kilometers. In a movie like (and I know this one sucks) Alien Resurrection, it made more sense to me that it took so long to get somewhere because we know they are on a space station-esque ship and that their smaller ship fit inside without a hitch. Sure we get the elaborate fly over at the titles, but it looked so much smaller on the exterior than the height showcased at the reactor.

That Bower mutant illusion scene, well I have no idea what went wrong there. It could have been that he shot a panel to stop them, only it didn’t come across that way. Might have been that they decided to shoot multiple endings and somehow it slipped past the editor.

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SPOLIERS

I didn’t expect Payton to be Gallo, especially since I only recall ever seeing Quaid as a “good guy”.

I didn’t expect them to have found their destination, been underwater, and have had 900+ years go by.

Those were good plot elements. I had trouble with some timing and otherwise minor story elements which somehow merged to annoy me. For instance we have the farmer who conveniently appears to save Bower. Plus he has what I’ll call “ninja skills”. These attributes are also given to Nadia. I understand the dual complexities of the hypersleep malfunction. On one end it has the potential to make you crazy. On another it can mutate you. However, who built the armor for the mutants? I doubt Gallo could have done it, and given them to the mutants without getting himself killed. After that he would have chosen to re-enter hypersleep, without executing the other flight crews. Depending on the time in which the mutants came to populate the ship, it can be believable that they have yet to run dry on humans to prey on. However, there is a sequence where Bower appears to be losing it. Instead of saving Nadia, he fires at what looked like a mutant, only to expose a panel. At this point, the director is suggesting that the mutants are in his head; but a moment later they reappear and it is confirmed that Nadia sees them. Add into the mix some poor fight scene direction, and I have to say that I’ve seen better, though Pandorum did exceed my expectations.

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