Bending space-time leads to Hell?

Rating: 6/10 (17 February 2020)

I have always liked "Event Horizon" mostly I think because of my general loving of sci-fi horror, but despite a wonderfull cast (Fishburne & Neill glitter!) this film annoyingly suffers from so many plot holes, a lump of Swiss cheese would be jealous! Unfortunatly it is the plot holes that seriously let down what could have been a masterpiece of this genre & I am talking about serious "who, what, why, where" abyssess!
The first part of the movie is actually very good, & ticks along nicely (although I don't get it that water can save you from 10g Gravity?) But then my eyebrow gets raised when the first flashbacks begin. What has the wife of the designer of the EH ship got to do with the story? Next we get into the recovery of the ships video log, which is full on Wes Cravenesque porn/gore, which inlisted the talents of real life amputees & porn actors! Errr.....WHY!? & what was with the Latin language used for? a connection to Hell perhaps. Then the film begins to loose momentum when the rest of the crew begins to hallucinate/or see ghosts of loved ones. Some of these scenes are so long & drawn out it could almost be a snoozefest! But yet again, why are the crew seeing these hallucinations? because this is yet another big Swiss cheese plot hole which is never explained. This is ultimatly very sad because the original cut of this movie was 130 minutes making me wonder if this lost footage could have explain what is unexplained in the final cut.
Overall EH is a stylish attempt at an Alienesque film & it does have its fair share of jump shocks, gore & horror, but its the story that is sadly lacking. But saying all this the overall message of EH is that experimental deep space travel will take you to Hell, which is a weird message to take onboard. Is EH actually an "ANTI-space" movie? Well in this respect yes it is! Because here we are 20 years into the 21st century & we have not even been back to the moon. You would think with all the tech advances we have today we should have vacations on the moon by now, flying cars, outposts on Mars, & perhaps even cracked faster than light space travel (the central story of EH) but we have not... Sadly all we have today are meglomainic billionaires socialists pushing wealth redistribution via climate change & forcing the people of our beautiful world into global govenance which they call "progressive".....I call it regressive, when now in 2020 the cosmic ocean is left unexplored, neglected & abandoned.