The Horsemen Review

The Horseman is a Dennis Quaid Movie in which not much happens. Dennis Quaid plays a boring detective with a boring family, who tries to catch a boring murderer.

Dennis Quaid is the only big named actor in this movie and it shows. It doesn't show because of Quaid's Superior acting ability it shows because Quaid is shoved down every single scene in the movie. The movie essentially follows Quiad through his day to day life. In his struggles to raise his children following his wife's death to his inability to capture a group of killers who attach references to the four horsemen of the apocalypse to their crimes.

This story telling technique is novel when you have a main character who is engaging, and a story that is so all encompassing that every scene helps to build onto the climax. However with horsemen we don't quite get any of that. We get a main character who seems hallow a void of emotions. we get his family who are almost interesting characters, but never get all that fleshed out. His fellow detectives who are apparently too stupid to assist him even in the simplest of ways, and finally we have the killers who do a very poor job of relating their crimes to the four horsemen.

All in all you get this hollow feeling watching this movie like nothing that your viewing could be real in any reality. The motivations of the characters,the way they interact with each other, even the way the investigation plays out feels fake and highly unrealistic.

Did the critics think the movie was good?
No. Rotten tomatoes gave the movie an overall 40% fresh rating.

Do I think its good?
No. I found The Horsemen quite boring to watch actually. Almost feel asleep quite a few times.

Is it worth watching?
... That is actually a really good question. I would guess if you really really love mysteries The Horsemen is the movie for you. Even though the characters are boring, and hollow, and the story kind of plays out oddly you get your full list of suspects fairly early in the movie, and you can kind of play detective alongside Quaid and see who figures it out first. However For anyone else Id probably go with no.

The only really enjoyable thing about the movie besides the fact that its a mystery is his children. although their not really fleshed out all that well. His sons are actually really interesting characters. The oldest taking the responsibilities of man of the house seeing as how his father is so distant. The younger son is the real treat, he is played by Liam James and is probably the best representation of a child in a movie that I've seen in quite a long time. I believe that children in movies are over directed quite frequently, and never are able to show that excitement and disappointment that comes in childhood. Many children have really short memories, and emotions go from love to hate quite quickly. I enjoyed Liam's portal of a young son who is ignored by his father. probably my overall favorite part of the movie.

I would personally give this movie a 2-5
Its not all that great, but its still fundamentally a movie, and you can squeeze some fun out of it if you really try.