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Not worth the confusion you'll feel after.
Gunneos - wrote on 05/04/09
The Horsemen tries so hard to relate the grisly murders within to Bible quotations it’s scary how easy it is to bat an eyelid and lose track of it all. The thing about these movies are that they don’t spend nearly as much time on whatever Bible references they’re basing events on as they should (The Da Vinci Code, anyone?).
Assuming you know the Biblical prophecies about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the movie has Aidan Breslin (Dennis Quaid) as a detective trying to solve a series of murders having to do with the Bible references. The murders, as with majority of violence committed in the name of religion, are both grisly and breadcrumbs laid down to a dramatic “apocalypse”…which doesn’t quite happen. Confused yet? Me too. They don’t tell you anything more about the Horsemen, or their relevance and significance in the movie’s context.
Even worse, there’s virtually nothing about the film I can read up on. I don’t know if they’re trying to pull a Cloverfield marketing scheme on this by withholding information, but it’s not working to their advantage. Are the horsemen the victims or the murderers? The twist towards the abrupt ending further complicates things. Does it all boil down to a bunch of antsy teenagers craving for attention? I expected more.
I can only offer you the following advice: if you’re squeamish about torture (think human skin and fishhooks) but are still insistent on watching this, go in with an empty stomach. Or, you could not watch the movie at all - it simply just isn’t worth the kind of confusion you’ll feel later on.
