The Horsemen

    If you are unclear as to why you would never want to live in Detroit, Michigan, see "The Horsemen." Detroit has it bad enough with the automotive industry falling apart; I would think the remaining citizens of that once fair city must feel like they were sucker punched by Lionsgate for representing their city as the fictitious and very frozen location of a set of grisly, horrific murders.

    The murders are committed by an eclectic group of committed idealists, who have fashioned themselves after the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as represented in the Book of Revelation by the Apostle John of Patmos. They believe by committing these horrific killings, they will succeed in wresting the attention of a curious public and sending the message that all is not well in the world.

    Dedicated Detective Aidan Breslin, played Dennis Quaid, is determined to solve the case and bring these deviants to justice, but first he has to catch them, and these are a wary bunch. Before the picture is over, in 110 minutes, Detective Breslin will travel many trails to some dead ends, and he will suffer a few personal twists of fate before his task is completed.

    The film has a good pace, by Director Jonas Ackerlund, and the story is adequately constructed by Dave Callaham to give one a sense of reality, but, the bloody murders are so horrific, one may pray for the story's conclusion rather than force oneself to adequately understand its meaning.

    Rated R. Released on DVD July 14, 2009.