4 Horsemen of the Mediocre

I had never heard of the movie Horsemen before I watched it. After viewing it, I still wish I had never heard of it. Dennis Quaid plays a widowed detective that sucks at being a single father. He gets caught up in a super freaky case about a group of killers who perpetrate their crimes after the pattern of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse from the book of Revelation. Sort of. It kind of works.

Does this sound like Se7en? Yeah, it kinda does. Initially, it manages to maintain a similar creepy factor, even. But the second half goes downhill pretty steadily with plot twists that only work if you don't think about them too much.

Along with the increasing weak story is some weak acting and incredible leaps of logic. According to the movie you can take a random chip from a computer, match it to the computer-at-large, find that computer's ISP, and use that to get a physical address for the location of the computer. Um...no. On the off chance you could match the serial number on the generic chip to the serial number of, say, a motherboard or something that was produced and sold, that still gives you no lead on the ISP address. You'd be better off going to the billing address for whoever bought the computer. But that still raises many practical problems. I know this is probably a pretty small detail to complain this much about, but come on, at least put in some effort to make this marginally believable!

Ok. I'm done ranting. If you're bored and up for a bad thriller type movie, go on ahead and watch this. But you're much better off just watching Se7en again.

4.5/10 Toddsperience