Horizon Line movie review by Movie Review Mom

MOVIE TITLE: Horizon Line

RATING: PG-13

LENGTH: 1 hour, 32 minutes

Movie Review Mom GRADE: D for pretty Dumb

IN A NUTSHELL:

From the creators of 10 Cloverfield Lane and The Shallows, this survival thriller was directed by Mikael Marcimain and written by Josh Campbell and Matthew Stueken. With preposterous scenarios, it’s both suspenseful and laughable at the same time. It falls into the traditional category that January movies are often the year’s worst. Fly or die.

TIPS FOR PARENTS:

Alcohol, Smoking, drug use
Premarital relations
Someone dies of a heart attack
People in perilous situations

THEMES:

Hope
Love
Tenacity
Resourcefulness
Friendship
Loyalty
Forgiveness
Second chances

THINGS I LIKED:

You get to go to cool places like Mauritania and London.
For trivia buffs, the airplane in the movie is a GippsAero GA-8 Airvan. (I understand none of those words.)
Allison Williams is really beautiful, but I didn’t like her character very much in this movie. Did you know her father is Brian Williams, the former NBC Nightly News anchor? Her mom is Jane Gillan Stoddard, a TV producer. Allison is one smart cookie, having graduated from Yale University. While at Yale, she was turned down for a part in a musical stage play but was a part of an improvisation group called “Just Add Water.” When she got married to Ricky Van Veen, actor Tom Hanks was the officiant! Sadly, she is now divorced from Ricky. You might have seen her in Get Out, which was an award-winning movie people loved her in.
The first time I watched this movie, I thought it was super dumb. I can’t believe I actually watched it a second time, but when I discovered Alexander Dreymon in the popular Netflix show “The Last Kingdom”, I fell in love with him and wanted to see what else he could do. I didn’t realize, at first, that he was the actor in this movie! I learned that he was born in Germany and lived in Switzerland, France, and the United States, giving him that unique accent.
Who doesn’t like Keith David? He’s such a likable guy in many of his roles.
Pretty cinematography by Flavio Martinez and Labiano from The Shallows. And by the way, if you haven’t seen The Shallows, I recommend it!
There is a lot of action.
Some of the CGI is very good.
SPOILER: There is some foreshadowing when Sarah refers to alcohol as rocket fuel.

THINGS I DIDN’T LIKE:

The characters are too cool and good-looking. Unfortunately, they’re paper-thin and super cliched with a plot we’ve seen before and done better. We really don’t know anything about Alexander Dreymon’s character, other than Allison Williams’ character thinks he’s hot. We aren’t given any backstories to make us get to know any of the characters.
Maybe I blinked and missed it, but I couldn’t tell how much time had passed from the time when the couple first met to when they were reunited.
So much annoying screaming between the characters. Of course, I would be screaming too. Just saying…
Lame dialogue.
Terrible editing
It’s definitely not worth going to the theater to see. Wait until it shows up on Netflix or something.
What’s funny is that the characters never even look for parachutes.
The action at the beginning of the movie is fairly believable but then everything gets increasingly more ridiculous.