Pandora Machine

2004 "Science has created a monster... they must destroy it."
3.3| 1h14m| R| en| More Info
Released: 29 June 2004 Released
Producted By: Braidwood Films
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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The police force of the future has been privatized to help the government crack down on dissidents. The Consolidated Police and Security Corporation uses the latest technological tools to monitor citizens and remove threats. But all is not what it seems. An assassin has evaded all the high-tech security measures - even the all-seeing surveillance cameras have no record of the killer's movements. The killer is not human. Now the elite team must track down the android, but a sinister government plot threatens to kill everyone involved.

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Cast

Doris Hick

Director

Andrew Bellware

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Braidwood Films

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Pandora Machine Audience Reviews

Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!
PlatinumRead Just so...so bad
Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
Knuckle According to the box, this movie is about the future, where privatized police crack down on dissidents through the use of high technology and omnipresent surveillance devices. There's a serial killer on the loose and somehow, he, she, or it manages to evade all of the gadgets that are supposed to make dystopia safe for the proles.Well, that's what it says on the box. The movie, on the other hand, is so poorly written, so badly directed, so pitifully shot, that the only the only thing I could figure out about the story was that it was wasting my time.This movie was not only held back by its micro budget, but by the absolute lack of talent in any of the departments.Save your money and rent something else.
Mike (miketrutt) Roger Ebert once said that the star system for rating movies is a sliding scale. To give this movie high marks doesn't mean that it's almost as good as "Silence of the Lambs" or "Star Wars", or even "Bladerunner" (which it resembles slightly). It's not nearly as good as any of those movies. I give it high marks because compared to other low budget (very, very low-budget) sci-fi movies, it's totally watchable, silly in a fun way, and just a little bit smarter than much of the genre in the way it deals with the question of the nature of sentient life. It's even slightly moving in a couple of scenes. Daryl Boling is a fine actor, and writer/director Andrew Bellware is an enthusiastic digital-age Ed Wood, without an allowance or an editor. One of the pleasures of watching this movie is seeing what someone can create without spending any money at all on production. Seriously, haven't you ever wished you could go out and make a feature-length movie yourself, with real actors? In this day of digital technology, who needs a studio, right? Well, here's an example of someone who did it, and all things considered, did it pretty well. Also, there is a tremendous amount of gratuitous nudity. No character wears clothing unless the plot absolutely requires it. I've rented other cheap sci-fi movies at Blockbuster, and they didn't contain ANY nudity.If you get your hands on this DVD, you must watch the bonus commentary track. It's very funny.
twaj201 Sometimes a student film really reaches out and grabs you. The Clerks is probably the most famous; Cube is the only such sci-fi movie I can think of. This movie really fails in many different ways. Although the two main actors are OK, the over-use of bad special effects is grating.Every several minutes the movie shows the same 6 or 7 still pictures of factories that look like the cover of Pink Floyd albums. One gets the impression that the director got really excited reading a book about semiotics in film and wanted to inject some warmed over Tarkovsky to make up for the lack of interesting, futuristic scenes.Indy films are supposed to be about crazy maverick stuff, but the corporate dystopia theme is poorly rehashed in this movie. The theme of a mismanaged, corrupt private police force was first explored in Verhoven's Robocop. Much of the silly dialogue in Pandora Machine is designed to re-enforce the impression that greedy corporations would run a dedicated police force into the ground; there's this painful scene where a woman at the police station is giving a performance review in which she criticizes the protagonists for their cost over-runs. You feel like telling the movie, 'ok, we get it, big business is evil,' but it never lets up.My girlfriend thought the acting was so bad that she called it 'a porn movie without the porn.' There's one rather erotic scene where a programmed woman rides the main character, but she looks to be in her late 20's or older. There is way too little erotica to vindicate this film's abysmal dialogue and painful-to-watch Commodore 64 graphics. I could only watch about 20 minutes at a time and eventually gave up on it after an hour.
donbasco This movie is so low budget that it is not worth watching. The story is very weak and makes no sense, it could have been told in 20 minutes. So the other 50 minutes are a waste of celluloid. The director tries to aim for an art film, but this is over done, and becomes annoying.The scenes that show the security cameras are a disturbance and repeated too much. The acting is horrible and makes no sense.Normally i'm not so hard in my judgment but this movie doesn't deserve anything else but a bad review, In other words don't watch this movie.But hey if you like Sci-Fi, bad acting, bad directing, a bad storyline, and bad movies, then you must watch this movie