Written by Definitely not for the faint-of-heart and even aficionados of movie violence will probably walk away from The Horseman breathless and disturbed. It's mean and upsetting, but though the cruelty may undermine the message of vengeance breeding vengeance, it's never presented as slickly enjoyable or a facile solution. Tracking down the men responsible one by one, he reaches a new level of brutality and discovers how far he has to go to settle the score. For a revenge thriller, The Horseman strays dangerously close to "torture porn" territory, but it's so well made that you're almost willing to excuse the gratuitous close-ups. I'll see it at least 10 times! The Horseman (2008) R 04/01/2009 (US) Thriller, Crime 1h 36m User Score. The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. | Rating: 2/5
Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. If you’re a fan of the revenge genre you will probably enjoy this film. Did he break every law he could on the way? Or horses. Along the way he meets Alice, a young runaway not unlike his daughter and a fragile friendship begins to unfold.
Pulls no punches whatsoever.
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| Rotten (12). Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. I'm trying to remember whether I even breathed once during the entire movie. Frankly, while it may seem like gratuitous violence, I'm not sure that any father would have done less if fgiven the opportunity, 'cuz he sure had the means and the motive and opportunity to wipe scum off the Earth, being an 'exterminator' after all. Travel back in time to check out the early roles of some of Hollywood's heavy hitters. Regal Big fan of revenge type films, but while this one had some good fights , I have to admit the ending fight was a bit of a let down.
It has violence and gore and the plot is suspenseful.
Still a very palatable Ozzie flick for those who have the stomach. Christian (Peter Marshall) is a pretty normal guy who is mourning the recent death of his young daughter. The Horseman ( 2008) The Horseman. The Horseman (2008) I’ve got a habit of recording stuff from the Independent Film Channel & the Sundance Channel that I’ve never heard of and watching it later.
He crumbles into the group's structure and from then on its a race between him and them. 2 VIDEOS | 17 IMAGES. Not a horse in sight, unlike it's a vague, convoluted reference to 'horse' being a street name for heroin.
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Along the way he meets Alice (Caroline Marohasy) a young runaway not unlike his daughter and a fragile friendship begins to grow.
. It does indulge in the usual revenge movie trick of presenting a situation whereby the hero and his kin have suffered so much that almost any level of ultra-violence is queasily satisfying if applied to a villain – a sulky wife who has kicked this all off by sending a copy of the porn video to Christian comes home to find him tugging on a fishhook caught in the miscreant’s scrotum and responds to the avenger’s question of ‘what did you think would happen?’ with a bland ‘something like this.’ But cracks appear – one participant, who was unhelpful but less culpable, pleads that he has a family of his own, and seems to get off more lightly. Superbly violent, grizzly, and graphic low budget revenge film is absolutely captivating due to the strong performance by Peter Marshall. Multumiri traducatorului. His teenage daughter has been found dead, the result of a drug overdose. Any film with a hero (I use that term very loosely) that gets his ass kicked every 5 minutes is a welcome change from the stake-free glossy violence of most mainstream cinema. R (Sexual Content|Language|Brutal Violence Throughout|Torture), July 9, 2010 The money spent on this film was practically nothing the crew were students working for free and the director is a young down to earth guy. |, November 4, 2018 Brutally violent revenge tale, but with elements of humanity, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2010, If Gerard Butler had no money, or not the ten years to plan his revenge, in, ] to carry out his elaborate plans, and Nick Cage wasn`t hired by a wealthy woman to find out about her husband`s snuff movie in. It's absolutely unrelenting from beginning to end. A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between a serial killing spree and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Tracking down the men responsible one by one, he reaches a new level of brutality and discovers how far he has to go to settle the score. WITH NO SPOILERS, A HARD WORKING, Makes the Death Wish movies look almost comical, Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2015. Copyright © Fandango. Price Match Guarantee. "Who's yer daddy?" To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The "head" of the family is literally that - a giant head on a tiny body, who psychically controls the rest of his even weirder family. Satisfying revenge thriller.
Soon after her death he receives a video anonymously in the mail.