[Review] Horizon Line(2020) {5.5/10}

Directed by Mikael Marcimain with a screenplay from Josh Campbell and Matthew Stuecken , the film stars Alexander Dreymon (Jackson), Allison Williams (Sara) and Keith David (Wyman).

The plot follows a pair that desperately struggles to survive, flying a small plane over the Indian Ocean after the pilot suffered a fatal heart attack. With nothing but miles of ocean and sky in every direction, and a terrifying storm that's about to envelop them, Sara (Allison Williams) and Jackson (Alexander Dreymon) have only one shot and there's no going back.

The film has pretty slim character development and other than their jobs, we don't really learn much more about the two leads. Then, during the suspense part which this 92-minute movie takes a surprising amount of time to get to things just never seem as intense or as scary as they could have been. Two sequences in particular in which Jackson climbs out to duct-tape a leak in the fuel line and when Sara climbs out to do something even more dangerous feel completely ridiculous. The filmmakers didn't seem to realize how silly these moments are or how much fun they could have been if this silliness had been acknowledged. In the end, Horizon Line  just sputters out.

Horizon Line is now available on Digital and Blu-ray.