A magnificent effort

Rating: 8/10 (11 May 2002)

This movie needs more than one vision to be fully appreciated: the basic idea is magnificent, so as it is visually stimulating, almost stunning in a creation of a Gothic spaceship. Images from the architecture of the Event Horizon are to remain fixed in your brain for years to come. The worst part is probably in the script that suggest too much, but doesn't explain almost anything in the end. This seems to be frustrating for most people (even me in the first occasion I saw the movie), but after repeated viewings you start to enjoy the sense of infinite doom, of cosmic horror in a modern Lovecraftian sort of way that permeate the story and its characters. It could be one of the greatest SF movies of all time, with a little more courage from both the director and the screenwriter. As it stands, it is still worth your time again and again