SCARY SCIENCE FICTION AT ITS BEST

Rating: 10/10 (20 June 2004)

EVENT HORIZON is scary science fiction at its best. The sphere that thinks on board the ship the EVENT HORIZON is like a biomechanical computer that terrifies everyone it encounters. The ship went missing seven years earlier as it was testing faster than light travel. It picked up a sphere of unknown origin and then at faster than light speed was lost in a black hole. The rescue ship LEWIS AND CLARK arrives seven years later. Some reviewers have callously described the ship LEWIS AND CLARK as a salvage ship. Calling a ship LEWIS AND CLARK seems to imply a schism of the mind because it is multiple named and foreshadows the madness among the spacefarers that is to come caused by the sphere. The interaction between Laurence Fishburne as Captain Miller and Sam Neill as Dr William Weir is OK but two great actors seem to be limited by the words in the script. It is revealed that both men must have gone into the sphere and a real fear of faster than light travel begins to manifest itself. I gave EVENT HORIZON a 10 out of 10 mainly for its cutting edge special effects.