Vintage

Mike Enslin (Cusack) is a disbeliever and then some.  He is rather jaded from life after a turn of unfortunate events, which left him deeply melancholic, withdrawn; seemingly in a never-ending existential crisis.  Or, it could be said, he is just like most writers right?  Okay, bad joke. 

Why he is really like this, we soon discover.  It is the result of the untimely death of his daughter Katie.  He can’t get over that; most fathers couldn’t.  Surely, he can’t be faulted for this level of cynicism given the foundation of its dark wellspring?  His daughter’s death changed his views on life.  However, another event is about to do that again; or, at very least, test his ability to believe in anything at all. 

As police detective Aiden Breslin (Dennis Quaid) struggles to maintain a bond with this two sons following the death of his wife, he finds himself immersed into an investigation of a series of horrific murders.  The veteran detective closes in on the investigation and connects the killings to the Biblical prophecy of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.  In this film's failed attempt to create suspense, Breslin discovers a chilling, yet predicable, connection between himself and the suspects.  This "shocking" connection is anything but and it becomes clear well before the plot unfolds on screen.