Saturday

Have you heard of Blind Horizon? Because you probably haven't, and even if you wanted to see it would probably never find a copy of it, I'm going to ruin the plot here for you. Val Kilmer wakes up in New Mexico with no memory except that someone is going to try to kill the president. He has suspiciously detailed memories of how this will happen. A good hour is spent with Val looking confused and trying to figure out his life, having flashbacks and seeing suspicious looking men. Eventually, it turns out he was going to kill the president, hired by the government to do so but now hunted down by them. It is, I suppose, to be classed as a psychological thriller. The music, however, doesn't help suspend the tension, nor does the dialogue (of which there is too much). The main problem, I think, is Val Kilmer himself, and indeed Neve Campbell. Both are wrong for this film. It is somehow a mix between Memento and The Long Kiss Goodnight, but inferior to both. This is how not to do a psychological thriller.