Started a bit lame, but proved worth watching & buying !

Rating: Null/10 (27 July 2001)

GREAT film, it scared the hell out of me !
The plot seemed a bit lame at first : ship disappears in a black hole, comes back again and shows weird results on life-form scan.....Boring and predictable, was my first thought. And me NOT being a Sam Neill-fan didn't help either. But don't let the simple storyline put you off. As I was watching it, and the ship begins to play with the minds of the crewmembers, it started to scare the hell (even if that's just a word.......I LOVED that line !) out of me. OK, it had some major "scientific" crap in it, and some bad acting too (Sam Neill, the black guy that gets blasted into space but -unfortunately- gets back to the ship). And the ending wasn't very good either. But I'm a major fan of Jason Isaacs and Sean Pertwee, so watching them made up for the other stuff. I think Laurence Fishburne was good too, as usual. But I liked DJ the best, because you don't really get to know his character and he does some unpredictable things.
SPOILERS !!! I also saw some things that seemed to predict the way in which some of the crewmembers died. Before Smithy finds the bomb, you see a tag with his name on it dripping with blood. And just before DJ is sliced open by Weir, you can see a huge scar running across his chest. Is this something I was suppose to see, or just my imagination running wild because of the film ? I don't know, but it made the movie even more scary for me.

And the gore...well, it was only terrible if I watched it in slo-mo (which I did, it IS quite sick). It flashes by so fast most of the time that it only leaves a very uneasy feeling, but no actual memories of what you actually saw in those flashes. I think it at least was 'gore with a purpose', not just put in to scare everyone. It showed a bit of the 'dark' beyond the black hole. They were in fact the only images you get from the 'enemy'. Great that there wasn't some alien being ! A fake or very UNscary alien is enough to ruin a film like this. The ship just made the crew kill itself....Great film, even bought it on tape !
Great and very unsettling film, despite some bad acting and a very simple storyline. I give it a 9 out of 10 !