Review of Event Horizon (1997) by David L — 10 Mar 2016

There's some part of my brain that completely disengages from these sort of films. It happened with Sunshine, and it's happened again with this. It's like as soon as a vehicle travels into space, all my ability to comprehend storyline just vanishes.

Now if it proceeded to reveal a psychotic killer monster in space, then that might be a different story, but it didn't. I can't really attempt to summarise what the plot was. I think it involved a rescue mission to try and understand why their predecessors did not return.

You'd have thought that if there was suspicion about it, then why would another vehicle go in after it, but nevertheless it did, and low and behold, the crew start getting sucked into some weird parallel universe.

It's even more difficult trying to comprehend everything when I was drifting in and out of consciousness myself, but I found this quite boring and mentally numbing. I genuinely think to the right audience, this might have been a good watch, but there's too much science in this to call it entertainment.

It's got a handful of familiar faces to its cast which perhaps led me to believe it could be worth giving a go, but clearly no matter how well this genre is acted, I'll struggle to get much out of it.

I can't really take too many positives from this other than I'm pleased I've diversified my film choices of late, and am still prepared to watch movies that in all honesty I know I'm going to struggle with.

I wouldn't not recommend it, as I appreciate this is a personal battle I'm having, but I'm afraid I'm not going to jump to the front of the queue if there are any more of these films on the horizon :).