Film Review – Horizon Line

It’s difficult to tell why “Horizon Line” was pushed into production, but I’m sure a feature like 2016’s “The Shallows” and its tremendous success helped the cause. While the new film doesn’t have a shark threat, it does detail a situation of tropical island survival that largely takes place inside an airplane, focusing on immediate crises and longstanding pains of the heart. It’s meant to be close-quarters panic with battered and overwhelmed characters, but “Horizon Line” isn’t the pulse-pounder once expects it to be. Director Mikael Marcimain delivers straightforward entertainment, bringing a mild amount of tension to the skies, but the screenplay (by Josh Campbell and Matthew Stuecken, “10 Cloverfield Lane”) doesn’t have much of an imagination for this type of disaster movie, dealing with banal relationship issues while halfhearted performances can’t sell the urgency of the moment. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com