Tweetienator
Just paying my tribute to the movie. Event Horizon is besides the 1st Alien movie an absolute favorite of mine regarding sci-fi horror in space.Event got it all - suspense, gore, horror, good acting, good production. I watched Event Horizon a couple of times (like Alien) and will still re-watch from time to time. Great!
rgs927
I first saw this movie in 1998 and it has always stuck with me. While certainly not perfect, there are some excellent (albeit gory) visuals, much of the acting is solid, and the first half of the film does a great job building up suspense.The story does play around with mind games, hallucinations, and drawing on the characters' past traumas. At times, if you're unable to suspend disbelief, this can make characters appear foolish as they chase after a character that couldn't possibly be there or otherwise see things they should logically know are not real. But if you can wrap your mind around this being much more than horror-character stupidity, you begin to realize just how insidious the evil in this movie is.Sam Neill has done other horror and I think he's underrated when it comes to his appearances in the genre. He does a great job throughout here, adjusting his performance well as his character goes through major changes.There aren't many decent sci-fi/horror films out there. While this one certainly doesn't surpass classics like Alien, it is a suspenseful, creepy film that continues the genre's tradition of asking big, frightening questions. I definitely recommend it to any fans of dark science fiction.
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.
mb1456
I wonder if this movie was intended as a horror or just a dark sci-fi because there wasn't anything really creepy except for the look of the ship Event Horizon - its face resembles that alien from the Ridley Scott movies! The effects are quite good and there's also tense moments when the rescue crew docks with the ship and goes in to check for survivors. The performances are OK but I felt the choice of actors could have been better - Laurence Fishburne and Same Neill are the only ones who really held my attention. Some scenes confuse especially how a certain dead character comes back and attack the rest of the survivors. With the effects and the atmosphere they attempted to create, this movie had lots of box-office potential but failed to deliver as expected. Verdict - with lots of misses than hits, there was nothing much even Laurence Fishburne could do to save Event Horizon(ship or the movie)...a forgettable, one-time watch.
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