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The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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Essentially Horsemen is if you took the thriller masterpiece Se7en, replaced the Deadly Sins with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and didn't hire good enough actors or crew to pull it off convincingly. The final result feels like a cheap horror B-movie that's trying to be an intense psychological thriller.The plot is pretty much as standard as you can get in a thriller. Someone has been murdered, his gruesome remains are found by some hapless bystander, an investigator, naturally suffering from deep, tragic and angsty backstory, is called in to assist as he is the only one with the knowhow, yada, yada. Clues are discovered, red herrings interrogated, people sit in a brightly lit police room behind a metal desk, you know the drill.The ending is also a problem. For the most part the film is not actually so bad. It's predictable and clichéd, but decent after a fashion. But then comes the ending. First of all, it contains a huge, logic-defying plot hole, and secondly, it doesn't have the guts to go all the way like Se7en. But no, we have to have a satisfying resolution. No nightmares or deep existential pondering for our viewers, no sir.Then again, most of the story is not so bad and the film actually has some really good imagery. Its derivative of Se7en, yes, but not in a bad way. Still, all in all I'd give this one a pass unless you're really into thriller horror films. It just isn't that good, and is actually pretty boring most of the time.

I first saw this movie not long after it came out in 2008 and having not seen it again since I thought I'd give it another go seeing as I couldn't really remember any of it. Having now watched it again, there's a good reason WHY I hardly remembered it from the first time and why I won't be watching it again.This is a pretty slow going film for the most part which isn't a bad thing if the story keeps your attention and entertains you. Unfortunately, The Horsemen struggles to do either and even though it starts off well enough it doesn't take long to fall away, and any grip it may have had on you from the first 20 minutes or so, just loosens up and lets go. Some of the more "artsy" shots tend to get a bit annoying as well...extreme close-ups of faces, lighting of cigarettes, etc. I know this is supposed to help with mood but it kind of fails in this film.Also, when you finally see who the Four Horsemen are and their motives for doing what they do (although this isn't spelled out for you...you have to piece it together yourself), you feel disappointed because you were hoping that it would be so much more than what it was.Another issue for me was that Ziyi Zhang was completely miscast as Kristin...not because she done a bad job but because she was just the wrong person for this role. Zhang was 29/30 during the making of this film - her character was a minimum of 12 years her youth. I know actors can tend to play younger parts but 12 years younger?! The rest of the cast were decent enough but there weren't really any stand-out performances.After all of that you probably wonder why I never rated it lower than what I did. Well, there were still some decent parts scattered throughout, it was a very dark & moody thriller (which I like), and the twist at the end wasn't too bad (at least on paper anyway as the execution of it wasn't the best).Overall, The Horsemen isn't a horrible film, but there is more things wrong with it than there are right ones.

A cheap rip-off of 'Se7en', 'Horsemen' (because '4our' would be too obvious) is about a widowed detective (Dennis Quaid) dealing with a serial killing that apparently has to do with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.It is all in there. The macabre killings in order to make a point, the religious modus operandi, even the 'society is evil, we live in a world of crap' underlying message, are just some of the 'similarities'. The revelation of the killer is different, true, but it is such an obvious and idiotic plot twist that it would be better just to copy 'Se7en' again. However, unlike its 'source of inspiration', 'Horsemen' is devoid of thrills and boring to no end. Its message is also terrible and poorly thought, like everything in the film. Full of plot holes too: The killings are done through suspension rigs which nobody saw coming and going between the murder scenes? And the 'explanation' the vendor gives for not caring who it was sold to!? How did Quaid not notice the white room for so long? And how the **** can the killer's plot change anything at all!?One scene scene stood out to me. About a medical savant, apparently very intelligent 'but' gay boy killing himself in front of his non-supportive, prejudiced brother (after TORTURING him) to prove some kind of point. That was such an stupid thing, it was maybe the very lowest the movie got.The cast is as terrible as everything else. Dennis Quaid is unbelievable as the grieving detective, and the way he acts (if you call that acting) when with his sons or anyone else is absurd. Ziyi Zhang, a 30 year old who plays an 18 year old girl, is not only unbelievable as a teenage girl (and that was before I found out her real age) but also as a psychopath who tries to come off as a mix between John Doe and Hannibal Lecter; she is laughable. Quaid's son is as bad, and only Clifton Collins Jr. manages to do a decent job but his character is so irrelevant it makes no difference at all.I was not too surprised when I saw Michael Bay's name as a producer. Anything he touches tend turn into crap; he is almost magical in that sense.

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