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

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.

The film has a simple plot, its post-apocalyptic where a chosen three of the younger generation compete in a leadership trial to be the next chief of their tribe. I liked the costume and make up design, and the carved masks of the warrior tribe the 3 main characters cross paths with reminded me of 'predator'

The film is well paced, was shot on a Sony A7 mostly at night which can be problematic, especially for a low budget indie. So I was impressed by the innovative way they lit the location, they bounced light off a huge helium filled balloon creating portable moonlight. special mention for the cinematographer George Burt, as overall it looked great!

Good Solid low budget indie film

You only have to look a little closely at people who leave reviews like chrisgordon75 to see that they are so biased and career aligned with cast and/or crew.

A box, a gun, predator looking bad guys and a bunch of tribal goons running around.

As it's low budget, I will give praise to the costume design.

The crying scene with the lead actress reminds me of Roy Hattersley from Spitting Image.

The scenery and music was too over-powering and did nothing to save me from the mundane script, unconvincing and over-cooked acting.

Don't believe the hype and don't waste your money !

Probably the worst acting I have seen in a while, poor dialect and unbelievable characters, I do not understand how the other user reviews, are 10/10!!! This has to be the cast and crew writing them! Nobody in their right might would think this was good, it is cringe-worthy all the way through, the plot has been plagiarised, from others,such as the hunger games and game of thrones, but just to make sure they are not directly plagiarising this, most likely it was changed, which is why you get some parts of game of thrones and other parts like the hunger games. I have seen better amateur YouTube videos! I am seriously wondering if anyone else, other than the cast and crew who have definitely rated this, because they all seem to pick out the parts and make them sound good, with hints of trumpets being blown by their owners!! I think it's very dishonest, I had enough of this fake reviews bull on trip adviser, why can't people be honest? This film was terrible I actually can't believe that anyone actually enjoyed it, I had to turn it off half way because it was so bad I couldn't take it anymore! Kids with their iPhone's could do better!