Great premise, lousy execution(s)!

Rating: Null/10 (21 February 2001)

On paper, this movie sounds really good. Set in the future, a ship with the ability to fold time and space for rapid travel mysteriously vanishes, only to reappear several years later. A crew is sent across the solar system to board the vessel and investigate, in the hopes of finding an explanation for the ship's disappearance. After a sufficient introduction to the characters and a couple of interesting sequences offering clues to the fate of the Event Horizon, what ensues is complete entertainment deterioration. There's nothing wrong with the acting in the movie, but they don't have much to work with after the "terror has manifested itself". The director goes for the "gross is good" parlay and ruins what could have been an effectively chilling pic.
Perhaps if the actions of the "dark side" in this show were delivered a bit more subtly, and if the dialogue and plot turns weren't so dang sophomoric in the latter half, I probably would have been trumpeting this film to all I know.