Blind Horizon
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Movie Reviews of Blind Horizon
Movie Review: A real puzzle to solve
Summary: 3 Stars
Blind Horizon
I bought "Blind Horizon" on DVD because Val Kilmer is one of my favorite actors.
Val Kilmer gives a great performance, as Frank, who suffers from amnesia after being shot. Not knowing anymore who you are must be really frightening. But the character he is playing is not the most likeable, so I couldn't really be sympathetic. There are no scenes that touch on human emotions, like in "Heat" or "Thunderheart", my two favorite Val Kilmer movies.
What makes the movie interesting and entertaining is its complicated plot, the many flash backs, twists and turns, the many questions it raises from the beginning on. I have to admit I needed a second viewing to finally understand most of it, to figure out all the connections between the different groups of people and the parts they are playing. Some questions may still be left open. This movie will keep you busy trying to put the puzzle together until the end.
There is also included the obligatory love story between Frank and Liz, the nurse, which is nice but for my taste this connection was not developed in a natural way, which makes it look a bit unbelievable. There is not a single scene where the two get closer, have some serious talk before she flings her arms around his neck and asks him to come with her.
There are a few more scenes that are quite unbelievable and strange. Like when Frank gets shot at the beginning of the movie he jumps from a fairly high cliff. Nobody can survive such a fall without any broken bones.
For my taste there is also too much smoking in this movie, quite inappropriate smoking, like when the nurse (Liz) smokes next to the patient (Frank), who is connected to oxygen and then barely puts out her cigarette in the chamber pot and leaves it there smoldering.
Later Frank tries to drink and smoke back his memory.
Anyway I recommend this movie to anybody who likes a complicated plot and do some serious thinking.
Another interesting movie with a quite complicated plot is "Mindhunters", which I enjoyed watching a lot.
Movie Review: Nifty Little Thriller, Better Than You'd Think!
Summary: 3 Stars
"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!
Movie Review: Intresting premise but could have been better.
Summary: 3 Stars
Blind Horizon is an average low budget thriller starring Val Kilmer who plays a man named Frank who is found in the desert in New Mexico and seems to have suffered from amnesia after being shot in the head, when he wakes up from a coma several days in a hospital he does not know who he is or why he's there in the first place. He keeps having flashbacks and old memories of his life and former ocupation and soon realises that there might be an attempt on the president's life. What I noticed with this film is that the cover was very misleading and I thought that it might be more like a political thriller or a conspiracy type of film like murder at 1600 but it has more of a noir type of atmosphere since most of the story takes place in this small desert town and some characters like the sherif played by Sam Shepard were were a bit boring or unnintresting and I had no idea what Faye Dunaway's charcter's purpose was in the film since shes not in the film that much. Other characters included in the film that were more intresting was Neve Campball who claims to be Frank's fiance but was a bit predictable and Amy Smart as a nurse who might be intrested in Frank and his background. I thought that the film was O.K. and was realy shot and directed well but it was not that memroble, it could have been better if it had a bigger budget and a better script.Movie Review: LOST RATHER THAN BLIND
Summary: 3 Stars
BLIND HORIZON starts out remarkably well, establishing a deep sense of mystery and foreboding. Val Kilmer stars as a man found half dead in the desert, and who has amnesia and can't remember his past. However, he has flashes of memory that intimate the President of the US is going to be assassinated. Michael Haussman uses flashback scenes effectively, but after a while, the movie falls in on itself in its lack of substantiation for its actions. It's not hard to figure out why Kilmer must know this information, and it's also plain to see noirish Neve Campbell is not all she appears to be. The subplot of Noble Willingham (as Deputy Cash) and his illegal activities does little to enhance the plot and perennial Sheriff Sam Shepard tries hard to bring some life to his role, but the movie become simply ludicrous once the assassination plot's secrets are revealed. Just who is Faye Dunaway and what does she have to do with anything. So as not to spoil the movie's climactic moments, I can't go into the details as to why the movie fails, but up until that point, it's a tidy thriller...it just doesn't end up being a good one.Movie Review: decent popcorn movie
Summary: 3 Stars
I hunted this movie down for my own personal Kilmerfest, but it really grew on me. The characters are interesting, sometimes novel, and the writing and acting is strong enough to support rewatches to spend time with them. Decent popcorn movie.