Yeah Event Horizon was a fluke for sure. It's not that he is a horrible director, he does have a few talents, he just can't seem to break out of average film making in general. Everything from casting(Seriously, Milla Jovovich is his biggest prize and that in itself is average), to writing to editing is incredibly standard in his movies. I'm almost positive if he was given the proper script and maybe had some actors with better chemistry he is capable of making a good movie, because production-wise he understands film. He doesn't make abominations like Uwe Boll who just simply doesn't have the sense to make coherent scenes that work.