Spooky, Violent and Atmospheric. All in all, a good film.

Rating: 7/10 (23 May 2004)

Event Horizon has taken some basic conventions from the horror genre and mixed them up with a very basic Sci-fi setting. There are characters you just KNOW are going to end up dying some sort of a horrible death, an obvious protagonist and some very clever little plot pointers here and there such as how the ship 'Event Horizon' can travel quickly through space and little things like that that make the film seem a lot more different than others in this cross genre.
Several characters put aboard a space ship with a 'no way out' element very much present and the fact it's in space and in the middle of nowhere makes this feel a little more claustrophobic than normal which is a good thing.
The twist in the film, I must admit, did take me by surprise and all though afterwards you think that maybe it was a little obvious, it still does set you back a bit. The acting isn't all that good but at the same time, they weren't dire performances. It was the kind of acting that goes unnoticed without any real performance standing out no matter how much screen time one may have. The dark, sinister setting is used very well and it isn't all CGI which has been the downfall of quite a few horror/sci-fi films in the past.
I liked the early sense of mystery and atmospheric feeling of confusion almost like some of the characters were private eyes, trying to discover what happened and untangling a mystery that has been made up.
All in all, I think you should see the movie and I think, odds on, that you will like it. Maybe not absolutely love it but you will feel a lot better after this film than maybe after certain others.