not that bad!

Rating: Null/10 (6 August 1999)

Sure it takes some stuff from other movies and uses it, but there aren't really that many movies anymore that don't borrow from other movies at least a little bit, mostly because just about everything has been done! We've seen talking animals, tornadoes, dinosaurs, aliens, demons, sinking ships, explosions (although I gotta admit I can't get enough of those), mask wearing psychopaths, guns (those either), aliens, talking babies, car chases, aliens, more aliens, asteroids, etc. over and over again! Sometimes making a good movie is taking stuff from other movies and rework them a little bit to make them better, thus adding a little bit of originality to stuff that's been seen before. That's why many old TV shows are being remade. Sure, many of the remakes suck, but what about "The Fugitive," "The Brady Bunch," and a few others I can't think of right now? There are tons of movies about Titanic, yet nobody complained when the newest watered down, bad acted teeny-bopper version hit the theaters. They made that piece of doodie the number one grossing movie!
This movie is like "The Shining" in space, but it adds a few plot elements here and there. People complain about too much gore, and I think that those people are the moviegoers who call themselves horror movie fans but have only seen movies like "Scream 1 & 2" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and all the other new horror movies that don't live up to what horror used to be. I'm not saying "Scream" was bad, that was my first real horror movie too, but after that I went and checked out it's roots, "Halloween," the original "Nightmare on Elm Street," "The Shining", and many others. Had I seen these before I'd seen "Scream" I would have looked at it as a totally different movie. But I'm not talking about "Scream," I'm talking about "Event Horizon."
It is more like the older horror movies, it doesn't water down the plot with a bunch of unnecessary and out-of-place humor. It goes right where it should, the scary stuff. Sure there might be a few plot holes, but who cares?
I feel sorry for people who analyze things that are scientifically or historically wrong with a movie when they watch it, because they aren't watching the movie for the reasons they should. There were tons of historical mistakes in Titanic. Star Wars has a lot of scientific mistakes with it. Jurassic Park probably couldn't really happen. In almost all movies set in the future, people have the power to travel at the speed of light and create wormholes, but our weapons are never quite good enough to kill a few acid-bleeding aliens or giant tank bugs. My point is, suspend your disbelief when you are watching a movie to be entertained, you just might actually like what you're watching. After you've seen it a few times then look for what's wrong with it, but don't hate it for what is wrong about it, like it for what is right about it. If you must hate a movie, at least make sure that it's because of terrible acting or a bad script or something like that. Don't hate a movie because it's not scientific fact or because it's too gory for you. I gave this 7 out of 10, because I LIKED IT DAMMIT!