Powerful

Must See Movie...

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Despite many negative reviews, the plot attracted me to this movie.Se7en and Silence of the lambs are two of my favourite movies and this was supposedly a cross between the two.For forty five minutes I was wondering why this movie had so many negative reviews. It's well made, costing around 20 million dollars and fairly well acted. The cast is also reasonably impressive.So, what's wrong with it? Well, this movie contains spoilers and if you must see it, stop reading right now.Basically, it turns from a hunt for a serial killer(s) into high school crap. There is no serial killer (if you discount the female character..and she isn't what you would call a serial killer anyway). No four horsemen of the apocalypse.There is nothing worse than a movie being taken over by family issues.You know, kids (young adults in this case) moaning cos daddy has to go to work. Even worse, the dad in this movie is a single parent and must work to provide for his kids. I wanna scream ''How the hell do you think you have this roof over your head? The clothes on your back? The car in the drive? The TV in your room? Your college education?'' This movie gets dragged into this pit of boredom. There is no serial killer. Just a bunch of suicidal brats (on the whole) who want to end it all because daddy doesn't give them enough attention. The funniest plot hole (and there are many) is that the 'lead horseman' complains his dad doesn't spend any time with him because of his important case. Yes, the important case YOU provided him with!One of the most ridiculous movies of all time.This could've been good. Why start a movie with cryptic messages on walls with a dead body? Why the 'the messages are facing at north, east, south and west?' These are clues to the killer's identity? Nope...they are nothing. Just nothing.What a waste of time!

I actually found the Horsemen as a recommendation from watching "The Caller". It basically followed a distant father/ detective who heads up a serial investigation into murders that revolve around the four horsemen.Okay so I'll be honest I wanted to see this movie for two reasons, one it had a serial killer and two I like Dennis Quaid's work.That being said I'm not sure what Dennis read that made him want to do this particular film. Sure if you read the synopsis it seems like a great concept that could have some neat things done but I'm sure once he he read the script he had to realize this is well crap. They build this whole serial killing thing up to a point where your expecting something elaborate or grand that has meaning behind it. I'll put you out of your misery and tell you there is none. I'm not even sure why they chose the four horsemen as representation because there was really no connection. The acting was par nothing spectacular and the kills were pretty disturbing at first, but lose momentum quickly. There was also a twist they tried to throw in there that failed miserably. I maybe got a good 30 minutes into the movie and realized quickly where they were going with it and who they were going to say was the "white horsemen." The ending was...lacking I didn't feel connected to the characters or emotional for what was happening. Don't get me wrong I feel sorry about the situation but the emotional connection just wasn't there for me. Though of no fault of Dennis and Pucci who do their best. It also ended with something of question mark, I wasn't exactly sure of what happened to the guilty party. The only Ace in this movie to me was Ziyi Zhang who was pretty exceptional in her role as a troubled "youth", at least i THINK she was a youth. All in all if you feel like sitting back on a couch with your lover and just watching random movies for no reason other then something to do then go for it. 4/10.

I loved the idea of Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and I thought the film looked decent with atmospheric lighting and camera angles. However, despite the great premise Horsemen of the Apocalypse never lives up to it.The acting is unfortunately not very good, Dennis Quaid I do like and I thought he was ideal for the role, but he doesn't have much to work with and sadly with a disconnected performance he lets that fact show. It doesn't help with the characterisation either though, it is woefully underdeveloped quite often.I wish there wasn't more but there is. The story had a great idea no doubt, however it is in structure disjointed and the sluggish pace and derivative direction further hamper it. What really sinks the film down is the script, which is really inane and cliché-ridden to the point it is barely bearable to listen to.All in all, there was a good movie somewhere but this was a perfect example of a film that never lived up to the promise it had. 3/10 Bethany Cox

I don't know much about the Horsemen of the Apocalypse in terms of its bible elements. I hadn't seen Se7en which sounds similar in terms of plot. And I should probably check that one out because this movie was really uninvolving, moved too fast and performances are uninspiring and boring.Dennis Quaid plays a frustrated single father of two kids, who is out to investigate a series of killings which resemble a link to the four horsemen from the apocalypse. That's pretty much all you need to know because everything else seems to go by in a blur.Ziyi Zhang, who I am a fan of, was unconvincing in this role. There is just something about her playing roles which requires a lot of English which doesn't click with her for some reason. I think she did an alright job in terms of her pronunciation - she has obviously made an effort to improve her English after seeing what Memoirs did for her. But I think it's going to take a bit more time until she fully can grasp it. But at least she is trying. Her attempt to play a psychopath was not convincing at all and she really wasted her time doing this movie.The murders in this film go from one to the next, with no real dramatic effect and simply to speed up the story. Characters aren't developed enough, and more should have been done on Quaid's wife subplot (though hardly) story involving his son.Lucky I got this movie for $1 at the Blockbuster Video Store liquidation sale. Hmmmm...maybe I should have suspected this wasn't going to be great if they wanted to get rid of it for $1. Oh well, next time I'll learn!