![]() ![]() Throughout the history of cinema, genres have had ups and downs in their popularity, with perhaps none having as extreme a sense of fluctuation than the Western. Where Is Horizon: An American Saga Being Filmed?.Who Is Behind Horizon: An American Saga?.What Is Horizon: An American Saga About?.Who Is Starring in Horizon: An American Saga?.Is There a Trailer for Horizon: An American Saga?.Where Can You Watch Horizon: An American Saga?.When Is the Release Date for Horizon: An American Saga?. ![]() I feel terrible for cheering the shark to just eat these two characters.It feels like the filmmakers had something written or planned for the shark, but ran out of budget to actually film it. I don’t know why they showed a shark near the end of the movie if they were not going to actually utilize the shark before they are rescued by the fishermen.Sara recoils and screams “OOOOH MY GAWD!!!!” and then a second later she is calm telling him “Everything is ok.” Sigh. Jackson’s arm is broken, complete with bone poking through the skin.Nothing like a near death experience to bring to ex-lovers back together.At least Jackson was using the bezel on his dive watch correctly.Watched at home, streamed on Amazon Prime Video. Horizon Line’s 90-minute runtime is crushing and it feels like a much longer movie. The boredom of the movie kills any chance of it being thrilling. Terrible dialogue and illogical contrived situations do not help either. But, the premise is completely squandered on uninteresting and boring characters. Horizon Line presents an intriguing and absurd premise that could have been wildly entertaining. His part is small and short, but he brings such gravitas to it that he leaves a lasting impression throughout the film. The one good thing in Horizon Line is Keith David. Dreymon seems to be doing what he can with the part he’s given. Her way of expressing grit and effort is to constantly grunt. Changing instantly within a single scene between badass and whimpering self-doubting coward. The Sara character is super inconsistent. Instead of quietly working in parallel with the images onscreen to help elevate the emotions of a scene, the score screams what emotions should be felt during a scene – and strangely at times, the score continues blaring when whatever little amount of tension in a scene has finished. The film score by Jon Ekstrand and Carl-Johan Sevedag is overbearing. The dialogue mainly consists of characters narrating what is happening onscreen in a Captain Obvious fashion. The script loads all characters up with cringy and terrible dialogue, layer on top of that dialogue wooden acting and Horizon Line becomes painful to watch. Rum apparently is a decent fuel substitute. All important gauges break at the times that they need to break. Having them open the fuel cap on the wing of a plane and not having all the fuel sucked out of the wing instantly because of the Venturi effect. Examples include having characters climb out of a plane flying faster than 100 knots and being unaffected by the wind. This approach for Horizon Line does not work successfully and feels contrived – mainly because in The Martian, Mark Whatney works through problems logically and the solutions he comes up with all ring true. Each time the characters fix a problem with the plane, the writers throws them another problem. The writers seemed to have taken the playbook of The Martian for this movie. But, the movie instead takes a turn for the worse and shoves the characters into a plane with poor Freddy. When they meet up again, there is conflict and from here the movie could have turned into a decent made-for-TV movie. ![]() The movie starts off sufficiently as a movie about a summer in which two people who fall in love but split because life got in the way. Unfortunately, the script by Josh Campbell and Matt Struecken puts the characters in such unbelievable situations that at some point no amount of suspension of disbelief can make this film’s inane situations palatable. The premise is a decent one that could have made for some reasonable thrills. During the flight, they lose their pilot friend and must figure out how to get back to safety. These two ex-lovers end up on a small plane with their pilot friend Freddy (Keith David). Sara walked out on Jackson – literally – a year ago and has met him again ahead of a mutual friend’s (Pearl Mackie) wedding on a remote island. Sara (Allison Williams) and Jackson (Alexander Dreymon) are old flames. Horizon Line at least has a good premise. A good premise is only one ingredient for an entertaining movie. ![]()
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