Confused and Horribly Clichéd

Rating: 3/10 (25 December 2008)

Event Horizon is a movie that can be neatly divided into two halves. In the first, the screenplay is to all intents and purposes a scene-by-scene facsimile of Alien, 20 years later, with no discernible improvement. The sets and special effects, if anything, look worse.
In the second half, the script dispenses entirely with the mildly absorbing haunted-house-in-space conceit and delves into the murkily opportunistic realms of psychological horror, a get-out-clause by which director and writer alike are able to incorporate any arbitrary plot twist and remain unaccountable to the audience's incredulity.
This movie's claim to any kind of critical respectability within the field of science fiction is frankly laughable. It is an amateurish rehash of a dozen better films, two-dimensional and neutered for the mainstream multiplex crowd - whom it failed to impress back in 1997.