The Horsemen (V); Poster, User Reviews, Synopsis and ‘The Horsemen’ Trailer

Release Date: July 14, 2009
Director: Jonas Akerlund
Writer: David Callaham
Starring: Dennis Quaid Ziyi Zhang Lou Taylor Pucci Peter Stormare Barry Shabaka Henley Neil McDonough Patrick Fugit
Studio: Lionsgate

SYNOPSIS

Quaid will play a bitter detective grieving over his wife’s recent death. While investigating a case, he discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. As Breslin grapples with each new revelation in the case, he slowly discovers a shocking connection between himself and the four suspects. Four Horsemen. Four unrelated victims. Four painful secrets. Come and See

User Reviews Are Disabled Until After The Release Date!

When I saw the one-sheet for ‘Horsemen’ plastered on the wall at my local cinema here in Georgia (which seems to be the only spot it is playing), I immediately made plans to attend a showing the next day. I know WHY this movie isn’t being promoted (read further), but I still didn’t expect to be the only person attending the film…I mean, it’s Dennis Quaid. Oh…wait…its Dennis Quaid.

The opening scene is beautiful in its vividness & leads the viewer believe this film may be something intensely thrilling. Unfortunately, when the next scene change begins and Dennis Quaid seems immediately intensely bored to be doing his role as the lead detective, I know this is going to be rough ride.

A horror and/or thriller movie can have choice acting as we’ve all seen before. Attempts were made here as the beautiful and award-winning Ziyi Zhang is one of the few reasons one might see this. Gripping in her acting, she plays bad good.

Besides the lack of Quaids’ lack of drama, it is the concern of how taboo and politically incorrect the killings are for most of ‘Mainstream America’ that has kept this film hush-hush. Examples include the extremely homophobic army brat whose gay brother looks to him for love and support; when his younger brother is…erm, dead, the army jerk, erm, brat, continues to rant on about how he is dead, etc. because he is a ‘f’n fag*ot’ no less than 8-times. Perhaps the film chatter has become silenced due to additional scenes involving a father who had raped his adopted daughter…or the son who was killing himself in front of his father due to a complete lack of a parent’s love.

The subject matter in this movie DID make me think about it the next day. If the Director, Jonas Akerlund (Music Video Director extraordinaire) was intending to get a personal message across, he succeeded. He did not however, create an effective horror/thriller film; the gore is moderate and thrills are very minimal. I wouldn’t jump in the saddle just yet.