makes no sense

Rating: 4/10 (18 April 2006)

"Event Horizon" is the sort of movie that could have come out very neat. Granted, there have been a number of movies about a mission in outer space finding something unusual, but they still could have done something interesting with it.
Well, guess what? They tried to do something interesting with it, and the movie ended up making little sense. For starters, the whole part about bending space was clearly ripped off from Madeline L'Engle's novel "A Wrinkle in Time". But even beyond that, there was so much that they could have done that they didn't do.
All in all, we can affirm that although the director has a name similar to the director of "Boogie Nights" and "Magnolia", it's clearly a different person. And it goes without saying that Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill and Kathleen Quinlan have all done much better than this. Jason Isaacs would later do better as Lucius Malfoy in the "Harry Potter" movies.