Pandorica

Pandorica immediatly impressed me with it's cover art, this looked like it could be something special regardless of it's minimal budget.

British made it's set in a post apocalyptic world where mankind has reverted back to tribes. Each generation the top 3 young people who have come of age venture into the woods to endure a trial, the winner becomes the tribes new leader.

This time they get more than they bargained for when they run into a fearful mysterious young woman with a secret.

Though I think Pandorica is flawed it has some interesting ideas and looks great all things considered.

The cast deliver their lines with competence, the direction is solid and you can see a lot of love went into the creation of the film.

Pandorica is almost a live action Horizon Zero Dawn (2017) minus the robot animals. All the credit in the world to the creators, I'd like to see what they could do with a budget.

The Good:

Looks great considering the budget

Cast do a decent job

The Bad:

Terrible choices in music

Often feels like not enough is explained

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

In the future we have face paint that doesn't fade, chip or rub off despite intense activities

The premise of "Pandorica" is stupid as are the actions of the characters at almost every point. The Varosha Tribe are a small, post-apocalyptic community, a few hundred years from now, who choose their leader once each generation by taking the three most promising twenty-somethings and subjecting them to a trial that kills two of them. The winner then replaces the current leader (who is still mentally and physically vigorous) who is also not allowed to return. If any of this makes any sense to you, you must be one of the people who left positive reviews for this vid.

The main character, the female warrior 'Eiren' is a classic Mary Sue while her two male competitors are a big, dumb klutz named 'Thade' and a swishy backstabber named 'Are' (which is virtually identical to the name of the Ancient Greek god of war, Ares. That's about how subtle this flick is.) It's obvious within the first two minutes of the movie that Eiren is the one who's going to win this goofy competition. Her plot armor is at an Abrams tank level of imperviousness.

The only one of the actors who's at all competent is Luke D'Silva as 'Nus', the current Varosha leader. The rest of the cast are incompetent performers who show no sign of having enough talent to be acting at all. The star of the movie, Jade Hobday, is supposed to be playing an elite warrior (Eiren) but her voice is sqeaky, her physique is slight, her posture is bad, and her movements are stiff. Frankly, she gives the impression of someone who's never done an hour of dojo training in her life. She's ridiculous, just like her character, just like this movie.

I rate this turkey a '1' on the imdb scale which means in reality... ZERO

Pandorica:The Future Reset is an incredible achievement for a film made with such a low budget and without any 'famous' faces (this will change now), the film succeeds on so many levels. It does not pander to mainstream desires for 'blockbusters' but will appeal to fans of the dystopian genre.

The premise is that a new tribal leader is chosen every generation, the current leader takes three hopefuls into a forest where a trial takes place, and only one can survive, quite why is not made plain.

The actors are all excellent and the dialogue is delivered with conviction, it's hard to single out favourites but Jade Fenix Hobday, Marc Zammit and Luke D'Silva stood out for me. Director, Tom Paton (who also created the whole film), keeps the beat of the action going, rising to the inevitable conclusion.

The filmography also excels, filmed at night in a forest but without ever looking too dark. The images are sharp and clear and reflects how much technology has improved to enable new film makers to reach previously unattainable heights.

Everything that appears in Pandorica is there for a reason, not everything is explained this time but sequels are promised. Even prequels?

Despite the outcome being fairly predictable and the start of the trial reminding me of the Wayne's World 2 quote "If you book them, they will come", this film deserves to succeed to enable the crew to develop this dystopian world further.

It's recommended to watch just because of the philosophical plot. acting was awful but what do you expect of low budget 11 day filming?

Erie, (Jade Fenix Hobday) is not an actress but is nice tattooed model. The makeup artists did a nice job on the clothing and makeups.

The voice director was not good but still better than some high budget junk movies.

I gave this three stars because of some excellent cinematic direction and camera work. Don't get me wrong though, there is also plenty of mediocre cinematography to balance it out. Oh, and there was some effort spent on costuming.

Apart from that, a grand total of zero (or maybe 1, if I was in an extraordinarily generous mood) for acting, script, plot, pacing and direction. Psychological horror? I don't think so. I found nothing of merit in this movie other than the prettiness factor. If I was to sum up my opinion in one word, it would be 'Avoid!'