Is This SF?

Rating: 1/10 (25 January 1999)

I saw "Event Horizon" on video, and I'm thanking myself for not having wasted even more money seeing it at the cinema, while at the same time I'm rebuking myself for having been daft enough to fall for it.
The movie is so bad that just by describing what is wrong with it you are already giving it more attention it deserves. All I can think of saying is that it's crap. I leave more eloquent comments to those better-qualified critics whose articles you can read on this database  but amazingly enough if you read through them you will even find some neutral, or even positive criticisms. Some things I just don't understand.
What I'd like to say, then, is that I'm utterly disgusted that such a movie can fall under the genre of "Science Fiction". Why? If it happens in space and you throw in a few mysterious phrases like "another dimension" and "outside the universe" does it automatically qualify? Nowadays such stock phrases seem to me to be just a licence to let anything happen, regardless of plotline or logic. If you don't understand what "focussing gravitons" means, I'll tell you. It means that a lot of nonsensical stuff is going to happen later on in the movie, which one is meant to accept because when you "focus gravitons", anything is possible, really. Space, or science, are clearly just lame excuses here. It's not "Science Fiction"; it's "crap".
And I thought "Independence Day" couldn't be bottomed.