Blind Horizon [DVD]

Interesting film with Neve Campbell.

A little message to ' Showbox Home Entertainment ' or whoever who decided to place ' three adverts ' before the dvd is playable.Funny enough I really resent being held hostages in my own Home to unwelcome adverts and I will make certain that I will avoid any DVD's from ' Showbox Home Entertainment ' in the future.The ' Menu ' button is locked until ' they ' decide to allow you access so thereforyou have ' eight minutes ' of adverts.Do these people really think they are doing their Customer's any favour's ?If Studios want to place adverts then they should do this at the end of the DVD not at the start.This unwelcome intrusion really put me off even watching the DVD but I did stick though it.Blind Horizon is a 2003 conspiracy thriller film directed by Michael Haussman. The screenplay was co-written by F. Paul Benz and Steve Tomlin. The leading cast includes Val Kilmer, Neve Campbell, Sam Shepard, Amy Smart, and Faye Dunaway.I cant really go into too much detail because this would spoil your enjoyment.Take a tip from me - bang in the DVD and then go and make a pot of tea - by the time you get back the adverts will have ended.Its well worth the effort

Very good

He's shot on a remote arid pasture of New Mexico. Loses his memory. Wakes up on a hospital cot with all these flashes, you know, US president being assassinated by snipers and all that jazz. No one quite comprehends what White House has to do with this forlorn desert but that's the rote mystery of it all.Intriguing setup? Well, borderline. But the execution is so flaky, so pseudo-MTV like, it annoys more than it entertains. Strange characters spring up periodically for no rhyme or reason, accompanied by high octane outbursts of sepia and B&W -- flashbacks one concludes.All of which resolves into a painfully deja vu plot. Every time a clue comes up it feels like a stray clip from a Depeche Mode video. The experience is grating, not so much for all the adoloscent 'twists' up its sleeve, certainly not for a lack of top stars (Val Kilmer, Neve Campbell, Sam Shepard), but for its aesthetic predicated on sudden bass thumps and scattershot imagery.In other words, a loud B-grade thriller that induces amnesia in its audience faster than its own protagonist could try and remember.

Really not very good in all respects, felt like a low budget TV movie we gave up after 20 minutes.

Another thriller about the killing of the president of the USA somewhere nowhere in New Mexico. In the well named city of Blackpoint. With such a subject you have to be slightly more subtle and contorted and contorted they were. Three killers. One is attacked by some unknown or at least dubious people and he loses his memory but not his life. The unidentified shady assailants can come back to the front as some kind of girlfriend or fiancée. He does not remember and he is ready to do his duty, though he remains dubious. Little by little he recovers his memory and he finally gets to the very heart of the matter. His acolytes want to get rid of him not so simple. But the fiancée comes back and that makes things tricky and very sick indeed. And what's more he likes the nurse who managed to bring him back to life out of his coma and she is waiting for him somewhere with a good surprise that is not only fiery blonde sex. So he cleans up the dirty plate of the assassination by doing his duty and he then can disappear with the blonde. But what was the fashion picture on the back cover of a flashy magazine of that poor solitary cowboy and the blonde nurse doing or representing? They must have met before in a trendier situation and in more glamorous circumstances. But well all is well that ends well, It is well known, and you can assassinate the president and yet run away with a few million dollars to enjoy the sightseeing of some distant country.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID

Movie stars Val KIlmar, Neve Campbell,, Sam Shepard, Faye Dunaway. Val Kilmer plays Frank, who is left fror dead in the remote Southwest and is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. as he recovers, ominous memories began to flash back regarding a Presidential assassination. Sam Shepard plays the sheriff of the town where Frank is hospitalzed. Enter Neve Campbell who says she is his girlfiend. Well to make a long story short come to find out that Frank and is girlfriend are assassions and Faye Dunaway is the Head Honcho of this group of assassions. Their mission is the kill the president.

Blind HorizonI 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.

This was one of my birthday presents to my husband. I like the movie. He loves it. One of Val Kilmer's better efforts. With a surprising twist at the end. After you watch the movie the first time, watch the special features and then watch the movie again.

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.

Good

great movie

I will have to say that Val Kilmer has done it again. His choice of movies recently have been nothing short of spectacular and all of them have been thoroughly enjoyable. Following up on Wonderland and Spartan, Kilmer portrays a man fallen victim to his own mind as he tries to piece together a memory fragmented by violence that will eventually lead him to a seemingly unthinkable crossroads. If you enjoyed Wonderland and Spartan and that "who is doing what to whom" type of movie, than Blind Horizon is for you. You won't be disappointed.