Event Horizon 5/10 - A decent sci-fi horror flick that would be much better with a tighter script, stronger characters, and less silly moments, though I will forever appreciate the infamous Cooper scene. The characters won't shut up, never quite grasping when silence is better than some freshman level one liner. Which is something it could have learned from Alien, a film it clearly took inspiration from. They also seem to pull ideas about what's going on in the ship out their ass rather than coming to conclusions naturally, which makes me think the writer confused bad writing with mystery. Some characters, like Starck, get lost in the background, vanishing for a while doing god knows what, only to pop up later with a bit of exposition to clear things up. Others have a quirk in place of development, like Smithy the paranoid Englishman. That's something that works in larger casts with peripheral characters, not here, but maybe the Lewis and Clark needs one or two less crew members. Still, it's easily Paul WS Anderson's best film (an achievement, I know), with able direction, decent acting, and great visuals. There are a few genuinely creepy moments, even though sometimes they show too much.
