Movie Review – Event Horizon
A experimental space craft designed to travel faster than light is found after disappearing seven years ago. A team of search and rescue, along with the ships designer are dispatched to find out what happened and to rescue the crew. Then things go bad.
I will state straight away that this is not my type of movie. I don’t like haunted houses, or things that make me jump because I scream like a little girl when provoked. That being said, this isn’t a bad movie. It is purely a horror movie based in space like the original Alien, but without a creature to cause the violence. It also is pretty similar to Solaris in the way that the characters are affected differently.
Event has a great cast with Sam Neill playing a totally different character to normal. Laurence Fishburne as the captain is pretty much Laurence Fishburne playing a captain. The one stand out actor for me was Sean Pertwee as Smith.
Visually the movie looks very good with the space scenes very realistic. The horror aspects of the film were scary and gruesome enough to please everyone.
While it was a sci fi movie to a point, not my kind of movie. About a seven out of ten if I had to pick!
