Paul WS Anderson shouldn’t be considered one of the all-time great auteurs. He’s a director heavily inspired by the genre output of John Carpenter, James Cameron, George Miller, Walter Hill and many others, but while those directors often infuse their work with recurring themes or subtext, Anderson is often just about B-movie thrills. His work is filled with exciting action and pretty visuals, but when the characters start talking it’s usually just to motivate the next setpiece.

That said, there’s something kind of pure about how ruthlessly he strips his movies to the bone. Take Resident Evil: Retribution, for example, the fifth entry in the movie franchise. It’s got arguably the best setpieces, the most creative production design and an assortment of pretty people firing machine guns, but it’s virtually plot-free and calling the characters one note would suggest they had a note to start with. If you surrender to his cinematic sensory overloads you’ll (usually) have a good time; if you stop and question anything that happens, you probably won’t.

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Even filmmakers with a less than stellar reputation usually have one movie even their detractors will give them a pass for. Michael Bay has The Rock, Jan De Bont has Speed, and Paul has Event Horizon, his nightmarish sci-fi horror movie. Like most of his output the plot is relatively straightforward: an experimental spaceship returns from a black hole after disappearing seven years earlier, and a rescue team are sent to investigate.