kilgoreboys What could be better than The Matrix? What could do what Alien did but better? Not Event Horizon. I have no idea why people follow this movie so much. It is one of the few times when I thought the things that were terribly bad, wasn't funny. This movie is a horror movie, but it is boring as hell, and not scary in the slightest. I actually see it leaning more towards an action movie than a horror, even though it is clearly filmed for horror. The director did not understand atmosphere for horror. The acting was atrocious, and the dialogue was simply cliche and boring.

PubHound I have to say, this movie could have been way more intriguing and surprising If it just wasn't so badly written. Too much is left unexplained, and the whole movie is too disjointed : that's a pity because there were a few choices that I really appreciated, like Sam Neill's character slowly revealing himself as the villain, or the ending that leaves some sort of ambiguity with the last shot. The directing and the editing look fine most of the time, but during some scenes they drastically lower. Another missed opportunity

edwardgamper-0-128609 This movie is incredibly atmospheric with stunning physical sets (including the mind blowing engine of the ship). Lighting is awesome, it looks great, mindblowing soundtrack by Michael Kamen (Lethal Weapon, Die Hard) and an absolutely stellar cast including pre-Matrix but very Morpheus-esque Lawrence Fishburne, Jason Isaacs (Yep Malfoy) and Sam Jurassic Park Neill (being all English and awesome).The film is a simple search and recover missing spaceship except it's a creepy missing spaceship capable of interdimensional travel - as so brilliantly explained in the classic scene where Sam Neil does physics with pencil and Sean Pertwee's nudie mag.This film may borrow from the greats like Alien, but it borrows well, and the more recent Danny Boyle film Sunshine is more than a nod to this cult classic.Yes there are some outlandish moment and silly ones, but it does a huge amount of excellent world building from the offset that means you're very willing to except what's happening. This film plays to all out primal fears of space and psychological demons as well as real ones and had gets in your head as much as makes you jump. This film holds up in 2018 with only a handful of shots looking dated. Some CGI zero gravity oil looks a bit rubbish today, but the sparing use of computer effects mixed with startling physical effects means you're rarely bothered by the fleeting dated moments.There are a few grim but exceptionally brief shots that are absolutely necessary in conveying the horror of what the crew are facing. I'm a big wuss when it comes to horror and can say that it's the perfect amount of gross. Just enough for you to be watching a handful of scenes through your fingers whilst mainly enjoying a total rollercoaster of a movie.

James I strangely failed to catch up with British Director Paul Anderson's sci-fi movie "Event Horizon" until 20 years after it was made. And now I think I understand why, as this piece does not please the viewer as well as it might. This is a more intriguing failing than it might seem, given quite-adequate special effects on the spacecraft in orbit around Neptune (certainly so for 1997), a pretty reasonable cast (Sam Neill, Joely Richardson, Sean Pertwee and Jason Isaacs to name but four) and a creepy-enough core plot idea (with a nicely enigmatic little twist at the end).Admittedly, quite a bit of the dialogue here is hammy, the theme music is simply a mistake, the plot realisation is at times predictable, and quite often members of the "Lewis & Clark" crew seem to act in slightly unlikely ways (the traditional sin of withholding information from Captain and crew being quite well at work here at regular intervals, for example).But does even this list of misdemeanours account for what happens with this film? I'm not quite sure.What is interesting is that the Neill character Dr William Weir sums up the evil of Hell by reference to eternal chaos and - surprisingly - the film offers up a little slice of that chaos, and it's not pleasant. And, while unpleasantness is not necessarily a crime in a film, or indeed in any other piece of art, the turnoffs here somehow just seem to outweigh any possible rewards of watching, even in a whole that comes in at just 96 minutes.