Event Horizon (1997)
A movie review by Michael J. Legeros Copyright 1997 by Michael J. Legeros
(Paramount)
Directed by Paul Anderson
Written by Philip Eisner
Cast Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely
Richardson, Richard T. Jones, Jack Noseworthy, Jason
Isaacs, Sean Pertwee
MPAA Rating "R" (presumably for gore and violence)
Running Time 97 minutes
Reviewed at Mission Valley Cinemas, Raleigh, NC (16AUG97)
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The title refers to the name of a derelict spaceship that is dis- covered in 2047, some years after it disappeared on its maiden voyage. Laurence Fishburne, Kathleen Quinlan, Richard T. Jones, Joely Richard- son, Jack Noseworthy, Jason Isaacs, Sean Pertwee, and Sam Neill play the search and rescue team that investigates the vessel, and to whom bad things begin to happen. Without revealing too many plot particulars, think of EVENT HORIZON as a big boo-house with some splatter movie tendencies. (ALIEN meets HELLRAISER, if you will.) Jolts a-plenty (strobes, sound effects, dream sequences, etc.) plus buckets of blood, ranging from clawed-out eyes to the gleefully grisly sight of a fully disemboweled human body. (You'll laugh, you'll heave.) The art direction and special effects are breathtaking and certainly a world more impressive than anything having to do with plot, dialogue, or character. (You *do* get to see the ship's navigator, the lovely Ms. Richardson, emerge from a "gravity immersion tank" wearing nothing but shorts and a jogging bra. Does that count as character development?) Directed by Paul Anderson (MORTAL KOMBAT), who pulls one or two memor- able sequences out of his butt: a hull breach, the restoration of gravity in zero-G, and a very cool example of how to rescue someone who isn't wearing a space suit when the airlock opens. Magnetic boots on.
Grade: C-
-- Mike Legeros - Movie Hell http://www.nonvirtual.com/hell
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