arleigh-birchler
The actors all did a great job. The photography was excellent. I enjoyed the movie up to the end, but then I was disappointed. It slowly gives more information so that you can figure out what is going on. Perhaps the ending is a bit predictable, but what bothered me is that in the end there are still too many unanswered questions. Based on other reviews I have read, one apparently has to have seen several other similar movies to really "get it". If "what really happened" is what others saw, okay. That was one of my possible interpretations at the end. But to get there I had to make a lot of assumptions about what various scenes "really meant". In this sort of complex thriller, I would like to come away feeling that it all became clear in the end.
Enchorde
Recap: A man is found out in the desert, shot and left for dead. But he survives and the sheriff starts to investigate. There aren't many clues though as the man doesn't remember anything, not even his name. His fiancée shows up a few days later though saying that his name is Frank Kavanaugh. But bits and pieces of Frank's memory returns and he starts to make outrageous claims that the president will come to the little town, and that someone wants to assassinate him. After that strange things and strange people turns up and especially one cute nurse gets Frank's attention.Comments: A good story but an average and pretty ordinary thriller. Val Kilmer stars but also gets very good support from Amy Smart and Neve Campbell, but maybe especially Sam Shepard. But a thriller that is supposed to be full of surprises, it hurts from being awfully predictable. Almost from the very beginning it is clear how it is going to end, and the movie confirms these predictions step by step.So even if the story is good, albeit a little full of clichés, the cast is good, both Kilmer and Smart are underrated, it turns out to be just average. It's a typical movie to watch an evening when the schedule is empty, but nothing to put before anything else.6/10
Ben Burgraff (cariart)
"Blind Horizon", an amnesia action/mystery with some 'big name' stars, went straight to DVD without ever being theatrically released, so many have 'written it off' as a lousy film; but if you give it a chance, this is actually a very entertaining little gem! Directed by Michael Haussman, the distributor, Lion's Gate, dissatisfied with the rambling 'director's cut', brought in ace film editor Alain Jakubowicz to punch up the film, and his re-cut gives the movie an edgy, fast-paced 'look', reminiscent of Christopher Nolan's "Memento", especially in the central portrayal of Val Kilmer's "Frank Kavanaugh". A likable 'lost soul', shot and left to die in the desert, who knows vague details of a plot to assassinate the President, he gradually discovers he is not a 'nice' person, and is, in fact, a key player in the high-level conspiracy. But as with Harrison Ford, in "Regarding Henry", his amnesia offers him an opportunity to 'change' his whole persona...if he can survive the attempts to silence him, and conquer his own instincts as a 'hit man'.Blessed with a first-rate cast, "Blind Horizon" offers many intriguing supporting portrayals, from a likable local sheriff (Sam Shepard), and his politically ambitious deputy (Noble Willingham), to the mysterious 'fiance' (Neve Campbell) Kavanaugh can't seem to remember, and the beautiful nurse (Amy Smart), he'd LIKE to know better, to a mysterious 'contact' (Faye Dunaway), who drifts in and out of his dreams, with missing pieces of the puzzle. Kilmer is, as always, eminently watchable, capturing both the innocent and unsavory sides of Kavanaugh very effectively, and making his climactic actions worth waiting for.Of special note is the film score, written by the collective group of composers, Machine Head. Working with non-traditional instruments, the 'sound' is both musical and mysterious, and ideally suits the film's ambiguity."Blind Horizon" certainly deserves a look, as a film far better than it's ill-fated history would indicate. I enjoyed it, and I think you will, too!
eksine
Has anyone else besides myself see a very close resemblance in the storyline as the Bourne Identity? This movie is about a man who gets amnesia right at the start of the movie. through clues and memory flashes he slowly starts remembering that hes an assassin. at the end of the movie he gives up his assassin life for a woman he met very briefly. although in Bourne supremacy the girl dies, you can still see some major overlapping. For the people who keep commenting that this movie was so predictable it's probably not from deja vu. I really do think those people predicted the storyline from previously watching Bourne Identity and not realizing why they can predict what will happen in this movie before it happens even though they've never seen this movie before.
