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Rating: 3.5 stars

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Seen on: 01/28/2011

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Horsemen (2009)

Directed by Jonas Åkerlund

Crime

Most recently watched by sensoria

Overview

A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife’s death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Rated R | Length 90 minutes

Actors

Peter Stormare | Zhang Ziyi | Clifton Collins, Jr. | Dennis Quaid | Barry Shabaka Henley | Chelcie Ross | Patrick Fugit | Paul Dooley | Lou Taylor Pucci | Eric Balfour | Onalee Ames | Deborah Odell | Stephen Eric McIntyre | Joanne Rodriguez | John Callander | Aaron Hughes | Manfred Maretzki | Liam James | Arne MacPherson | David Dastmalchian | Darren Wall | Thomas Mitchell | Darren Felbel | Jeff Shannon | Omar Alex Khan | Kevin Power | Carey Smith | Brenda Gorlick | Kinga Rylend

Viewing Notes

It makes me sad to see a great actor like Dennis Quaid struggle with roles in sub-par movies like Horsemen. Horsemen has potential, and Quaid does a servicable job here, but the movie ultimately falls short.

The plot is typical, involving serial killings, a struggling detective who’s lost his wife and doesn’t live up to his familial duties, blah blah blah.

Horsemen could have transcended this mediocre plot if it had just been bolder in its editing decisions and exploited some of the great acting, especially by Ziyi Zhang. As it stands, Zhang’s role is never fully taken advantage of, which is frustrating, because she does a particularly creepy and unsettling turn in this film.

The closer to the end of the movie this gets, the more obvious the rushed editing decisions are.

The second best part of the movie (after Zhang’s creepier moments) is seeing Eric Balfour hanging from meat hooks. He deserves this as punishment for my having sat through the abysmal Skyline.

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