Disappointing

Rating: Null/10 (12 April 2004)

Event Horizon stars Sam Niell, who starred in Jurassic Park and as the anti-christ in Omen 3. Here he plays a similar character, who plans to bring hell into the world via a spaceship which returns from the boundaries of Neptune with hell captive.
Initially a science fiction movie, this eventually turns into a futuristic horror which is uncannily similar to Hellraiser 4, in which Pinhead and his demons devour space crew. Event Horizon follows the same path with some horrific results but with a much better cast. You will notice some faces from Alien 3. Laurence Fishburne is wonderful as Captain Miller and keeps a level head through this nightmare in convincing fashion.

Event Horizon has some great ideas, most of which taken from the film Alien. I was disappointed how the film looked to become an envigorating science fiction movie, then turned into a gory horror. It feels like they took the easy way out. The CGI effects are some of the best I've ever seen and the sequences where the crew first enter Event Horizon are exciting. Too bad the effects were used on claret and massacre in the last thirty minutes. It could have been so much more.
3/5