First off, the Tyler Durden twist with Payton and Gallow was really easy to see, which meant about 50 minutes was wasted building up a twist and most people should have been able to see coming. Also, the writing was incredibly lazy. That amnesia the characters had always happened to wear off just in the right areas just at the right times. That's just laziness if you ask me. If you're going to write a movie that deals heavily with mystery and unanswered questions, you shouldn't just answer them by having some completely unexplainable force just fucking tell you whenever it pleases. The characters should have to work for it, search for clues, piece together seemingly random pieces of information to uncover the big secret. But no, the group of people spend the whole movie trying to get to the reactor of the ship to restore power and have the mystery simply explained to them on the way.

So the big deal is that Dennis Quaid was initially a corporal on one of the flight crew shifts and was present on the bridge when they received news that Earth had been destroyed and that they were the only pieces of humanity left. He gets the space crazies (which they call Pandorum) and murders his officers. He then spends the rest of his time playing God with the rest of the people on board, unfreezing them and using them as he pleases. Apparently some enzyme turned a good chunk of the people into flesh hungry Quan Chis, thus giving the protagonist some scary creature to run from, god forbid the horror come from the fear of being completely lost and alone, not knowing where you are or what you're supposed to be doing, and the fact that all the survivors you find seem to be insane so you don't know who to trust. No, fuck that, we need scary monsters. Somebody conveniently remembers that this was a one hundred twenty something year flight, and it is assumed that Bower woke up because it was his shift on the flight crew, so he estimates he's been asleep about 8 years. But at the end it is revealed that they disembarked from Earth 926 years ago. Since they were still en route when Earth was destroyed, that means Dennis Quaid managed to survive at least 800 or so years on the ship. Okay, so maybe he'd freeze himself for long periods of time, but if that's the case there's no way he'd've stayed in control, as the mutated things clearly had a system of order and easily could have taken over the ship if he wasn't steadily releasing people for them to hunt. Okay, so maybe he did and it was all automated. It's not like this massive horde ate one person per day between all of them, and even if they did they'd only last a few hundred years. Well it was also shown that they eat each other when mortally wounded, WELL THEY STILL WOULDN'T LAST EIGHT HUNDRED FUCKING YEARS WITH THE FOOD SUPPLY THEY HAD. Oh, and the big twist was that they landed on the planet long ago and the ship was just sunk in the ocean all this time, which means the pressure finally busted the glass on the bridge and flooded the place (true to form, at the most convenient time) and initiated an emergency evacuation, launching the 1211 still unopened pods to the surface for a happy ending. Fuck that lazy writing.

Now that I think about it, Foster's character was assigned to flight crew 5, meaning his 2 year shift was the fifth to happen. He hadn't been awakened prior to the events of the movie, which eliminates ANOTHER hundred something years since he would've been unfrozen after 8 years if everything went smoothly. This means Quaid had to have gone crazy within the first 8 years of the flight. The more I think about this movie the more pissed off I get.