Ignorant, medieval mentality hiding behind big, modern special effects

Rating: 3/10 (19 October 2000)

This movie is basically an $80 Million dollar statement that says: "Science = Evil" and "Wherever we haven't looked yet, Satan must live."
If I'm not mistaken, some New York City residents were frightened by the original subway construction because they thought demons were down there, under ground. Needless to say, that claim was false. And now we are treated to the Quantum Physics version of the same thing in this piece of junk.
But the film's message of identifying positively with medieval notions of ignorance, fear and evil wasn't the only bad part. There were incredibly derivative plot elements. There was a ridiculous overuse of cheesy horror film tactics. There were illogical action elements that seemed to be thrown in to keep the audience from falling asleep, such as the entry into Neptune's atmosphere, that just seemed to become a non-factor when the director got tired of worrying about them. And there was horrendous dialogue that ignored all of the wonderment around these people trapsing through the solar system and looking directly at these distant planets. Finally, the film just disintegrated into gross-out tactics, throwing bloody people meat into your face.
I think the tagline is "Infinite space...Infinite horror." The only things infinitely horrifying are this movie's stupidity and its incredible waste of money on special effects.