Sunday, December 6, 2009

The Horsemen

Released Year: 2009
Directed by Jonas Akerlund

Casted by:
Dennis Quaid as Aidan Breslin
章子怡 Zhang ZiYi as Kristin Spitz
Lou Taylor Pucci as Alex Breslin
Story:
A bunch of children/teenagers who face trouble from family met up in a psychology. They form a society which name themselves as the Horsemen. The Horsemen are based on Biblical prophecies concerning the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: War, Famine, Pestilence and Death.

First murder happened at the Spitz family, their adopted elder daughter Kristin murdered her mother because the father has been raping her since she was adopted. She hang the mother on a rack and tortured her to death. She even dig out the infant which is inside her tummy.

Second murder happen on a guy who is a 2nd grade teacher while the third one is a guy whom his girlfriend was captured inside a cupboard while he was killed. These 3 person didn't seems related to Agent Aidan Breslin until Kristin gave him hint.

Later on, there's another case happen. A homosexual guy who is from the horsemen hang his anti-gay brother on the rack and force him to see himself suicide and saw himself death in front of the brother's eyes.

Sadly and out of his expectation, Aidan's son Alex is one of the member in the horsemen. Being a irresponsible husband and father. Aidan was not with his wife when she died, left only Alex to deal with it. Finally Alex hang himself in front of Aidan and told him what's the horsemen club is for... The horsemen usually show their frustration to their family by killing themselves or other loves one. At last, Aidan save Alex and promise to be a good father to him.

L² Scored: 4/10

L² Comment:
The movie is kinda boring and lifeless. ITs not the actor fault, its the story line which is so dull and dry and boring...

And its a bit confusing at first. Zang Zi Yi's english is so so only~

2 comments:

  1. quite suck by the plot..i can easily cross reference who is the murderer without done watching..

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  2. yea~ jst that i'm not so clear abt the horsemen thingy coz i'm not a christian

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