Too many fans seem to be blown away

Admirable film.

A Brilliant Conflict

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

This is an intriguing mystery, a puzzle with multiple parts that gradually fit in together. The acting was very good. Val Kilmer was perfect for the role and was convincing as someone with amnesia. Amy Smart was great as a sweet nurse and Sam Shepard was very good as sheriff of the border town. I don't understand why this movie received some poor reviews (some said it's too complicated) but I found nothing seriously wrong with it. It's not predictable, you are never quite sure what will happen next, and it's quite thrilling up to the very end.

The actors all did a great job. The photography was excellent. I enjoyed the movie up to the end, but then I was disappointed. It slowly gives more information so that you can figure out what is going on. Perhaps the ending is a bit predictable, but what bothered me is that in the end there are still too many unanswered questions. Based on other reviews I have read, one apparently has to have seen several other similar movies to really "get it". If "what really happened" is what others saw, okay. That was one of my possible interpretations at the end. But to get there I had to make a lot of assumptions about what various scenes "really meant". In this sort of complex thriller, I would like to come away feeling that it all became clear in the end.

"Blind Horizon", an amnesia action/mystery with some 'big name' stars, went straight to DVD without ever being theatrically released, so many have 'written it off' as a lousy film; but if you give it a chance, this is actually a very entertaining little gem! Directed by Michael Haussman, the distributor, Lion's Gate, dissatisfied with the rambling 'director's cut', brought in ace film editor Alain Jakubowicz to punch up the film, and his re-cut gives the movie an edgy, fast-paced 'look', reminiscent of Christopher Nolan's "Memento", especially in the central portrayal of Val Kilmer's "Frank Kavanaugh". A likable 'lost soul', shot and left to die in the desert, who knows vague details of a plot to assassinate the President, he gradually discovers he is not a 'nice' person, and is, in fact, a key player in the high-level conspiracy. But as with Harrison Ford, in "Regarding Henry", his amnesia offers him an opportunity to 'change' his whole persona...if he can survive the attempts to silence him, and conquer his own instincts as a 'hit man'.Blessed with a first-rate cast, "Blind Horizon" offers many intriguing supporting portrayals, from a likable local sheriff (Sam Shepard), and his politically ambitious deputy (Noble Willingham), to the mysterious 'fiance' (Neve Campbell) Kavanaugh can't seem to remember, and the beautiful nurse (Amy Smart), he'd LIKE to know better, to a mysterious 'contact' (Faye Dunaway), who drifts in and out of his dreams, with missing pieces of the puzzle. Kilmer is, as always, eminently watchable, capturing both the innocent and unsavory sides of Kavanaugh very effectively, and making his climactic actions worth waiting for.Of special note is the film score, written by the collective group of composers, Machine Head. Working with non-traditional instruments, the 'sound' is both musical and mysterious, and ideally suits the film's ambiguity."Blind Horizon" certainly deserves a look, as a film far better than it's ill-fated history would indicate. I enjoyed it, and I think you will, too!

Well, I missed the first part of the movie and maybe that accounts for why I didn't understand the details of the plot. The general outline is clear enough. Val Kilmer is involved in a plot to assassinate the president and for some reason is shot by the plotters to get him out of the way. Maybe he had doubts about the legality of such a plan.But its detailed explanation, if there was any, escaped me. I could usually tell the bad guys from the good guys, but not always. Things happen that seem to point nowhere and add nothing to the plot. When Kilmer returns to his hotel room for the last time, why is it loaded up with guns of all kinds? The performances aren't bad and the script, as it appears on the page or tumbles out of the actors, is okay but it is so elliptical as to elude comprehension. The nanosecond-long flashbacks -- sometimes in black and white, sometimes not -- are too fragmentary to be of much help. Kilmer is more uncertain and stutters more than usual. Neve Campbell looks good and can dance. Amy Smart is nacreously blond, probably the hottest girl in her high school, stunningly beautiful along flamboyantly Aryan lines, whom all the boys lusted after and wanted to pinch and bite. (The girls on the other hand wouldn't have minded watching her fall head first into a shredder.)The locations are pretty well done. Las Vegas, New Mexico, looks dustier and seedier than it actually is. Still -- here are Kilmer and the mysterious Campbell as his supposed fiancée. They gradually seem to fall for one another and get it on together. When she unexpectedly has her head blown off, Kilmer glances at the body for a moment then eases out the door and Campbell is immediately forgotten.Maybe you should make sure you see the first 15 minutes or so. Then, as Charlie Chan promised, all will be explained.