it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Forget everything you know about science and logic. In fact forget that you have common sense at all. The movie makers shamelessly tell you a tale that's so far off from the realms of possibly that you wonder if they ignored the fact that the watchers could have brains. On the upside, if you want to take revenge from someone or if you're simply one of those people who derive pleasure from others' suffering ( which the makers of the movie certainly are), go ahead and recommend this movie to someone. But if you are a person with sound mental health, then stay clear of this movie.

I didn't get to see this on the big screen, it was either on video or on TV that I first saw it, either way it was a TV edit for old squarer TVs, but the film was made in panoramic, so you lost more than half the film with a TV edit having to pan around the original footage to try to pick out the action. TV edits like that have too much poetic licence and too much of the fuller scenes are lost. You have to watch it in full panoramic to enjoy films like this. Now, with the much bigger HD widescreen TVs that people have, I'd encourage the doubters to watch this film again as it should be watched, in all its glory. Some films don't transfer well to the old square TVs as edits, but the TVs we have now do them justice. A lot of older films are worth watching again in Blu-ray on these new TVs. 2001: A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of the Third Kind are some other good examples, but Event Horizon also fares well with modern tech. Watch it as it should be watched, all of it, with none of the wider footage edited out because of screen size. The cinematography is excellent and the film itself stands up well, even today, after 20 years. Not many films can do that without seeming dated. It is much better than a lot of films that are released today. It was ahead of its time when it was released, it still is, and for me, it is a classic sci-fi film.

What could be better than The Matrix? What could do what Alien did but better? Not Event Horizon. I have no idea why people follow this movie so much. It is one of the few times when I thought the things that were terribly bad, wasn't funny. This movie is a horror movie, but it is boring as hell, and not scary in the slightest. I actually see it leaning more towards an action movie than a horror, even though it is clearly filmed for horror. The director did not understand atmosphere for horror. The acting was atrocious, and the dialogue was simply cliche and boring.

I strangely failed to catch up with British Director Paul Anderson's sci-fi movie "Event Horizon" until 20 years after it was made. And now I think I understand why, as this piece does not please the viewer as well as it might. This is a more intriguing failing than it might seem, given quite-adequate special effects on the spacecraft in orbit around Neptune (certainly so for 1997), a pretty reasonable cast (Sam Neill, Joely Richardson, Sean Pertwee and Jason Isaacs to name but four) and a creepy-enough core plot idea (with a nicely enigmatic little twist at the end).Admittedly, quite a bit of the dialogue here is hammy, the theme music is simply a mistake, the plot realisation is at times predictable, and quite often members of the "Lewis & Clark" crew seem to act in slightly unlikely ways (the traditional sin of withholding information from Captain and crew being quite well at work here at regular intervals, for example).But does even this list of misdemeanours account for what happens with this film? I'm not quite sure.What is interesting is that the Neill character Dr William Weir sums up the evil of Hell by reference to eternal chaos and - surprisingly - the film offers up a little slice of that chaos, and it's not pleasant. And, while unpleasantness is not necessarily a crime in a film, or indeed in any other piece of art, the turnoffs here somehow just seem to outweigh any possible rewards of watching, even in a whole that comes in at just 96 minutes.