The Horseman may not be an easy film to like, given it's dour subject matter, but it is a film that's easy to appreciate. Well-written, well-directed, well-acted, and with graphic violence made all the more brutal because of its realism, it's much darker than anything Charles Bronson ever did.
A slow burn of a psychological thriller, it heightens the tension as we move along, all the while trying to get the audience to question our own morals. It's just not a "loved it" or "hated it" movie; it falls somewhere in between.
Director Tommy Wirkola has decided that the time is ripe for a revival of a horror subgenre many people thought would never re-surface: the Nazi zombie film. And by the end of this 90-minute splatter comedy, the beautiful white snow of the Norwegian Alps will be painted blood red.
As controversial a figure as Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was, director Steven Soderbergh wisely straddled the fence in portraying the man many people believe to be the driving force behind Fidel Castro's rise to power in Cuba.
Mixing romantic comedy and horror is no easy task, but Must Love Death does so with relative ease, making for a twisted, genre-bending thrill-ride of a date movie.