Horsemen, The Apocalypse Draws Near

It's coming!  Or is it?  The final days are here!  Biblically speaking, we are in the final days.  An accurate understanding of the Bible suggests that me and you do not know when this day is.  To suggest otherwise is heresy. This speculation, however, makes great movies.  Today we have a gory one.  A taboo one.  One that will make you squirm.  Let us take a look at 2009's "Horsemen," directed by Jonas Akerlund.

Detective Breslin (Dennis Quaid) is a homicide detective.  As our film begins he is summoned to a very gory and ritualistic murder scene.  He knows that this won't be the last one.  It won't be.  These murders seem to be done by a gang.  Drugs are utilized to incapacitate the victim and the victim is kept alive to undergo unimaginable torture and disembowelment.  This is the last thing Breslin needs.  Having just lost his wife a few years back, he is struggling, and doing an awful job, at reconnecting to his two boys.  Hardly a family man, Breslin is summoned to an expensive house where a mom has been suspended on hooks and...well, see the movie, but it is disgusting!  He must then console the three children, the oldest one is the very pretty Kristin (Ziyi Zhang).

Breslin puts two and two together and gets his Bible out.  He finds a connection between the killings and Revelation 6.  The four horsemen of the apocalypse are introduced into the plot.  The question, which biblical scholars discuss, is now an important one for Breslin...who are these four horsemen?  Uh oh...the answer to this, in Breslin's world, will be shocking.  Even worse, the killings continue...and did I mention...they are sooooo gory?  Meanwhile, Breslin fails repeatedly at connecting with his two sons (Lou Taylor Pucci and Liam James). 

Just who are the four horsemen as far as Breslin's police investigation shows?  Are the horsemen really heralding an apocalypse?  Is our good detective in danger of becoming one of the victims?  Experienced horror film fans will catch where this one is going, though it will still be a shocking film.  Not the feel good film of 2009, but ominous and horrific, all the same.  See "Horsemen" and don't use this film to learn about what John penned in Revelation.