Horsemen’s premise looked interesting. It’s about serial killings done by a group based on the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. Dennis Quaid heads the group of detectives who are hunting down the serial murderers. To add to his woes, he’s having a difficult time balancing his job and being a single dad to his two sons.
Thirty minutes into the movie, I already guessed who the Horsemen are, specifically the White Horsemen. But that’s just me using my psychic powers again to solve the mystery. Reading Hardy Boys can help develop that skill.
Dennis Quaid was effective as the distant father/detective. But the dialogues were not too impressive. His partner Stingray played by Clifton Collins Jr. had a distracting pornstar moustache. I was dumbfounded with their police-work. They were given all the clues and yet they are still clueless to the very end.
Zhang Ziyi plays the Red Horsemen. She improved on her English skills and I did like her performance in this movie. Her character met the rest of the horsemen during their group therapy sessions, including Quaid’s son played by Lou Taylor Pucci. Yup, the detective is hunting down his own son. What about the others? Who’s running the web site? These are just the questions left unanswered when Horsemen abruptly ended.
Horsemen is not for the faint of heart. It was gory but not that gory that can make you puke. Using the Horsemen as the mythos behind the murders was not convincing enough for me. “Come and see” might be the Horsemen’s tagline but this should not be the case. If you’re into biblical murders, watch Seven instead.
