just not that good

Rating: 4/10 (12 April 2004)

Having heard some good things I approached this with some degree of enthusiasm, but I was left spectacularly unimpressed. The film does have a few good points ie. some nice visual flourishes and design, particularly the whole gravity core thingy. However, there was just so much that was plain bad. The characters and dialogue were hammy as hell and had me constantly cringing. The whole 'where did the Event Horizon go' idea was intriguing but woefuly unexplored, not I don't think because the writer wanted an air of enigma and mystery, but rather because they clearly could not be bothered to come up with anything beyond a vague premise to attach some special effects to. Lastly, the whole thing was shockingly deriviative (Solaris, Hellraiser, Galaxy Of Terror etc etc). Having glanced at the director's CV since this film it really all begins to make sense.
In short: avoid.