confused rehash of Solaris ideas

Rating: 3/10 (31 July 2009)

Event Horizon is a horror exploitation of the concepts presented in Solaris. It takes horror cues from Alien and Don't Look Now and mashes them with Solaris and 2001 to make an ultimately unsatisfying film.
It takes off from some real physics concepts (e.g. folding space) which were also already used in Dune and then amps up the gore. Many aspects of the story don't get fully developed and are left hanging.
The set is elaborate and the computer effects extensive. It shows that much more time, money and effort were put into the stage craft than the story and character. Never a good ratio for movie making. It makes you wonder what the original script might have looked like.
A rather derivative, disappointment.