In an adventure that looks fanciful but very exciting about the return of the long-vanished spacecraft called the Horizon of the event. Which caused many questions because of the return of the spacecraft at the time. In order to investigate the return of the spacecraft, there is a strong team called to do that task, where he discovers something very strange on board and may be carrying strangers.
Eschewing the predictable plotting and happy endings of recent big-budget sci-fi productions, Event Horizon emerges as a truly twisted, nightmarish summer shocker.
... incrível como um filme que suga tantos elementos de clássicos como 2001, Alien e Solaris pode ter resultado em uma besteira tão grande. Mas é este o talento de Anderson: dirigir besteiras colossais.
Cinefantastique
December 30, 2008
Paul Anderson shoots things to look cool, but he has no grasp on how to modulate the visuals to carry the audience into the deepening nightmare of the plot.
Where's the application form for the job where you get paid to rip off the lamer and more bombastic aspects of Barker, Kubrick and Scott? I'm sorry I missed that notice.
Film Journal International
July 16, 2007
The perils the actors face would be far more shuddersome were their characters more sharply delineated from the outset.
Paul W.S. Anderson's outer space horror Event Horizon is an example of a potentially great and complex idea given a simplistic and ultimately ridiculous execution.
If I were a psychologist hired to analyze the people who made this, I would conclude that everyone involved needed to take their inner child out back and shoot it.
