I saw Horsemen yesterday. I have to say that I did like the movie. It’s quite entertaining, it has some cool scenes, and above all, Dennis Quaid did a great job as the cop looking for the killer. It’s not a masterpiece, and it doesn’t get to be a great movie. It’s just good.
The movie is full of bad things, too. Ziyi Zhang is one of them. I like her as an actress (she’s magnificent in House of Flying Daggers, which is one of my favorite movies), but her role in Horsemen wasn’t convincing at all. One thing I found quite funny/weird was the casting decision. She’s 30 years old now, but she’s supposed to be a 17 or 18 year old girl in the movie.
The plot is the usual cop after serial killer as we’ve seen in other better movies (Se7en comes to mind). The end was completely predictable and a bit dumb. What bothered me the most was the revelation of who the killer was; from my point of view, that was done too soon.
Anyway, as I mentioned before, the movie is not free of issues, but it’s entertaining and watchable, so I don’t think you will be disappointed if you see it knowing that it won’t be that great.
Buy the Horsemen
