Quite Forgettable Aside From Laurence Fishburne

Rating: 3/10 (22 January 2012)

Strange. I was hesitant about this film basically because it had Laurence Fishburne playing a spaceship captain. I like Laurence Fishburne. He's a decent enough actor - probably a little under-rated. But I couldn't really see him in that kind of role. He surprised me. I thought he worked quite well as Captain Miller of the Rescue Ship Lewis & Clark, sent to investigate the sudden appearance of a ship (the Event Horizon) that suddenly appears in orbit around Neptune after disappearing seven years before. The truly unfortunate thing was that Fishburne seemed to be the only thing that worked in this. The rest of the cast didn't really capture me, and the story just didn't grab me.
The Event Horizon had been testing out a new kind of engine that would allow it to travel faster than the speed of light by essentially bending time. It was lost without a trace. When it reappeared (in the year 2047) Miller's team, which had the scientist who invented the new engine (played by Sam Neill) included, heads off. There seem to be no survivors, but plenty of strange things happen - which are clearly related to this new kind of engine. The crew has strange hallucinations (or are they?) and it turns out that what the new engine has actually done is somehow opened a hole into a new dimension; into some parallel universe that can only be described as hell.
It disappointed me. The cast (aside from Fishburne) was weak and the story just simply seemed to get progressively sillier as the movie went on. It's not a great addition to anyone's sci-fi video library. (3/10)