What an annoying movie!

Rating: Null/10 (23 September 2000)

What an annoying movie! You've got a bunch of pseudo-scientific bafflegab. You've got a bunch of weird dream and hallucination sequences. You've got a bunch of people acting in all sorts of odd ways, but dominantly ill-tempered and unreasonable. And then the pseudo-scientific bafflegab progressively slides into pseudo-religious bafflegab about "evil", and the whole sorry mess sort of morphs into some kind of horror film. I don't know! The production values are all excellent - acting talent, special effects, editing... but it all seems so pointless, and thoroughly unpleasant to watch as well. And if you hang on expecting it all to make some sense... well "don't" is all I can say. Event Horizon also must break records for gratuitous use of graphic displays of human mutilation... and all in the service of a script that goes nowhere, and burdens itself with too much gobbledegook to work on a level of simple story telling.