The Horsemen (2009)
Synopsis: At home, hardened police detective Aidan Breslin (Dennis Quaid) has grown increasingly distant from his two young sons Alex (Lou Taylor Pucci) and Sean (Liam James) since the death of his wife. At... At home, hardened police detective Aidan Breslin (Dennis Quaid) has grown increasingly distant from his two young sons Alex (Lou Taylor Pucci) and Sean (Liam James) since the death of his wife. At work, he finds himself thrust into an investigation of perverse serial killings rooted in the Biblical prophecy of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The White Horsemen, a master of deception and the unexpected leader hell-bent on conquest; The Red Horsemen, a sharp-witted warrior intent on turning man against man, with an innocence that hides a burning rage within; The Black Horsemen, a manipulative and dark tyrant, unbalanced but always one step ahead; and The Pale Horsemen, an executioner with disarming strength, determined to spread death through surgical precision.
As Breslin grapples with each new revelation in the case, he slowly discovers a shocking connection between himself and the four suspects. --© Lionsgate
As Breslin grapples with each new revelation in the case, he slowly discovers a shocking connection between himself and the four suspects. --© Lionsgate
Sound good right well not so much I am not going to say that I hated this movie I didn't, I did enjoy it for what it was a movie that should have been made by a cable TV channel.
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Lou Taylor Pucci who stars as Dennis quaid son in horsemen. This is what I was writing about earlier character development. They could have had a field day with this guy. During the process of this movie you find out he is the white horsemen. This is where my whole problems arises there is a scene in the movie where you figure it out that he is the white horsemen or at least I did but truthlfully I wasn't sure until near the end. The writers should have focus on him as the white horsemen not showing him but showing the back of him to keep you guessing through out the movie.
The other two horsemen you never really get a feel for what role they really had. As soon as you are introduce to them they die. One of them didn't even have a role in the film all you saw was his dead body on the ground I won't even tell you they excuse they use to kill him off it was that bad.
The other horsemen dope himself up with so much PCB then took his own life as he made his brother watch and that was the end of him. This movie really needed cut scenes to show how and why they all got together instead of loose explanations.
The problem was there was no character developments in this at all you are thrust in this movie at once and just as you start learning about a character Boom another murder. You can tell once you see it, it had great potential but falls short.
Horsemen wants to be like so many other great serial killer movies like Seven in that movie you get to know the characters you see the world through the eyes of morgan freeman and brad pitt, with horsemen you don't get that sense of pain through the killers they come off cold no emotion what so ever and with a movie like this where it about emotion you desperately need this.
