Battle for Pandora

A low-budget scifi movie from the Asylum, even if you look through blue glasses, this is still a poor movie. Although you can expect that shortcuts have to be made with a low budget, wearing a dive suit instead of a space suit is completely understandable. However, at the start of the first scene twice open skin is flashed (1:12, 1:45) in outer space. That is even before the three actors are introduced and the story is started.

Luckily, the cinematography (blue haze of Pandar), clothing (colonel is overdressed, whereas the head of disease control is dressed like a 90ish porn star going to the office) and special effects aren't the most laughable part of the movie. The dialogues are even worse. The sentences are illogical and the acting differs. Some of the actors are playing it a more normal way, others are completely overacting their emotions to an absurd level (drs Jennifer). Second to the dialogue are the scene settings, there is apparently an emergency and yet the actors are coolly entering the scene holding a cup of coffee while they were summoned to the Space agency (without any indications except the urgency of the request). It just makes no sense.

I could only watch for the first thirty odd minutes. The drawbacks of the movie as i described were too much. The only thing i could find mildly amusing was Tom Sizemore. He wasn't acting great (i wonder who could with the story and the dialogues) but he was entertaining. Especially when discussing the AI.

As described by others, it does look like a high-school play/movie. It was to be expected, but for me, it was just a bit too much.

I guess this is a mockbuster of Avatar 2 but the only thing the two movie have in common is that the place is called Pandora. It had the feel of an unrelated sci-fi script that had the Pandora clumsily pasted on. It's pretty clear that the moon of Pandora was originally an asteroid for example. The spaceships look decent but all of the other effects are really cheap and bad. The water effects somehow look much worse than they did in The Abyss in 1989. The alien moon of Pandora is clearly just California with a blue filter. They don't even try to make it look alien. The director seems to believe that shouting=intensity. The characters are CONSTANTLY SHOUTING. Almost every line of dialogue is SHOUTED AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS. The only actor who seems to know that his character is supposed to be in the military or something is Tom Sizemore. None of the other characters are at all believable as either military or scientists. They come across as more like a bunch of teenagers BLURTING out whatever comes into their minds AT THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS. The plot is stupid. The reveal is stupid and you will see it coming a mile ahead of time anyway. That is if you decide to waste your time watching this thing. I would recommend not doing that.

And then I see the space suits. But let me tell you the good part first. The actual introduction and the credits was very nice. And some of the buildings and things on the ground and the special effects were so so. However those spacesuits.

I felt like I was watching Lost in Space or something. Maybe Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea?

I'm sure there's some good looking space suits, in a movie supply house somewhere. Aside from that it wasn't so bad. I mean hey they're dealing with limited budget I understand that.

But simple things like camera angles and such could have been better. Once they got inside it went much better. But before then it looked like they were in the some Lagoon somewhere. Hey I'll give him an A+ for effort.

Arvidmslusarczyk states that Pandora, which is a moon, cannot look like a planet, such as Earth. This is incorrect. A great example would be Saturn's moon Titan. Titan has a strong atmosphere and a surface with lakes and rivers. No plant life because of the freezing temperatures but could be possible in the future.

Also, mproffesa giving this film a 9/10 doesn't help this film. It is not a 9/10 in any shape or form, and that's fine. I've seen limited budget films that didn't attempt to be more than they were while simultaneously givng a moral viewpoint based on the limitation of its budget(s). The poor costuming and set designs could have been overlooked by many if the dialogue was actually accurate within the subject matter in which they are speaking about. Dialogue, in such regard, is more important than those two things. The film, as a whole: says nothing. It's overdramatic, poor acting, set design, costuming; and all that together creates a boring atmosphere. It's an insult to give it a 9/10, and just makes people think you worked on the film or friends with filmmaker(s).

It's a skip for most.

I can only imagine that anyone having anything to do with this abomination and actually releasing it upon the American public is currently seeking out a deep dark remote part of this world to hide in shame, remorse and the deep guilt one would undoubtely feel after creating something such as this and calling it a "Movie".

If you paid for this garbage, you have been legally mugged.

Most of the actors are young and have a chance for redemption providing their families, friends and the movie industry acknowledge their existence again.

The older actors no longer care or have any pride in their trade knowing the fact that the American people are being dumbed down enogh to accept this rubbish and just shut up.

Hopefully I didn't hurt anyone's feeeeliiingsss.