Event Horizon
Paul Anderson shoots things to look cool, but he has no grasp on how to modulate the visuals to carry the audience into the deepening nightmare of the plot.
Lousy Scares
Silly Execution
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Brian Davis commented
I personally can't BEGIN to believe this movie was ever even MADE!
Half of the scenes are attempts to rip off _Alien_ or (_Aliens_), ALL of those scenes fall completely flat. Just focusing on the first 10 minutes of the movie (in no particular order, because "time travel", right?), we're given this BIG buildup about how the Ion Drive is a big exciting deal... then we never get to see it be activated. ..., What? Did someone fail "How to be Cinematic 101?" We see a collection of spaceships with NO idea where they are in relation to each other... The whole movie STARTS off with a scary dream sequence, ... so that EVERY time ANYTHING "scary" happens for the rest of the movie I'm just thinking, "#$&#% Probably just another stupid dream sequence!" so NONE of it was ever scary. VERY bad structuring in that respect. (WORSE structuring for the fact that *I* was RIGHT most of the time and it DID turn out to be another dream sequence.) [Yeah, I know the movie is based around the idea that the dreams are prophecies or some nonsense, but if there's any potential for actual HORROR in that, the producers utterly failed to land it.]
This movie makes ME, a mere mortal, scream mockery at the screen. Our Super Riffers should have a FIELD DAY with it!
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Frank Rossman
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Event Horizon is worthy for many reasons, but its Laurance Fishburne's response to seeing the video of the original crew driven insane by the Event Horizon that demands not mockery, but tribute as the best reaction line in all of Horror/Sci-Fi. That's a bold statement, and so is Fishburne's.