IMDb plot summary: A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.
Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, and Joely Richardson.
This is such a strange movie because, on one hand, there's a sense it wants to be Solaris, prompting big philosophical questions about guilt and the past and alternate dimensions, or Alien, a dark edge-of-your-seat survival thriller, but it also has SO MANY moments that are shot and edited and sound designed so comedically that it undercuts both the attempted thoughtfulness and the attempted dramatic tension and keeps landing in the campy B-movie circle, particularly in the final third. It's hard to tell what anyone was actually going for in the end with this, but I ultimately kind of enjoyed the goofiness of it, particularly Sam Neill's performance toward the movie's ending. It's a mess but kind of an entertaining one, you just can't take it quite as seriously as the filmmakers (maybe?) hope you will.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Event Horizon < Broken Embraces
Event Horizon > Persona
Event Horizon > Innocence Unprotected
Event Horizon < Plan 9 from Outer Space
Event Horizon > I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Event Horizon > Blow Out
Event Horizon < Camp Rock
Event Horizon < My Blueberry Nights
Event Horizon < The Sasquatch Gang
Event Horizon < Harry and the Hendersons
Event Horizon > Manhattan
Event Horizon > My Sassy Girl
Final spot: #1873 out of 3246, or 42%.
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