Event Horizon

It plays better than it reviews — the watch lands harder than the write-ups suggest.

• “Event Horizon could have used a decent script, but the director, Paul Anderson, is a stylist to watch.”

  Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly · 67

• “It has been said that no one sees a movie for the sets, yet an exception might be made here for Horizon's visually staggering production design -- truly an event itself. The story, though, is such a transparent variation on the Alien ouevre that your tolerance may hinge on how much you can shrug this off. [15Aug1997 Pg03.D]”

  Mike Clark, USA Today · 63

• “Superbly styled in techno-Gothic space-grunge chic, this sci-fi/horror cross-breed is a directorial triumph of reference and homage.”

  Ian Nathan, Empire · 60

• “Director Paul Anderson, whose last film was "Mortal Kombat," well knows how to build suspense and increase tension. But counterbalancing all of that is Event Horizon's position as a sci-fi splatter film, intent on drenching the screen in blood and gore whenever possible. [15Aug1997 Pg 16]”

  Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times · 60

• “The screenplay creates a sense of foreboding and afterboding, but no actual boding.”

  Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times · 50