Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49121 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-01-01
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Good, but could, no SHOULD, have been better
Wrestling never really paid much attention to it's history, or at least Vince McMahon didn't, until it realised the money to be made in it.

Thus, the WWE release a DVD set dedicated to an act that, as a complete faction, never wrestled in the WWE.

And given that the Four Horsemen are THE greatest faction to have ever been assembled in the wrestling world, this should have been a five star DVD all the way. Sadly, it falls short.

The main problem is Arn Anderson. It's the 21st Century and we all know that wrestling is a "work." His comments on the DVD, which sound as if he's telling the "story" as reality, jar on what otherwise is a perfectly sound run through the Horsemen story. My only other complaint on that score would be the fact that the story pays scant attention to the in-ring action, content to give us insights into the Horsemen's real life prediliction for living the high life.

The other problem are the bonus matches; surely out of all the classic Horsemen moments, they could have put some better matches on than the collection that is there. Yes, the War Games is a classic, but Blanchard/Rhodes is awful and few of the rest is must-see.

Still there are definate highlights (watching Tully Blanchard is always a pleasure, Ric Flair has some great stories and Paul Roma's stint in the Horsemen generates some of the funniest moments on the DVD) to pursue, yet there is a sense of disappointment that this could have been so much better.

The Horsemen ride!
From the depths of WWEs' massive video library comes another excellent release, a look at the Four Horsemen, which given that the Horsemen were not a Vince creation, i'm suprised we got a DvD about them. Following the usual standard of DvD releases, we get a 2 hour documentary about the Horsemen with interviews from some of the members (Flair, Arn Anderson, Tully Blanchard to name a few) with the documentary being part shoot and part kayfabe. This mixture can be disconcerting at times, but netherless you do get moments such as when Flair lets us know his feelings with regards to Jeff Jarrett, Sid Vicious and Eric Bischoff, or the hints that we get from Barry Windham with regards to the Nature Boy.

The matches that we get are decent, but perhaps not the best that we could have had, the Horsemen (Arn and Tully) had amazing matches with the Midnight Express in the mid Eighties which are not on here but we do get a fair few decent matches. The same goes for Interviews and vignettes. We get some, but there is so much more out there that we could have put on the DvD.

The Horsemen were the original first faction in Wrestling and their influence will be long felt. Hopefully we will get more of their classic stuff on DvD in the future.

i loved it
The four horsemen came together in 1986 almost by accident and disbanded in 1999 roughly albeit after several member changes so much so that the group was very much a shadow of its former self but the core members of arn anderson and ric flair remained throughout the good times and the bad.
The main members consisted of arn,ric,tully blancard and ole anderson and they were the first wrestling stable about,if it wasnt for them there would have been no NWO,no DX,no nation of domination,no brood,no ministry of darkness and no,eerr,i am all ashamed to say,no blue world order,oh i feel ill,anyway,you get the idea,the four horsemen were a group that wrestled together and partied together,they were close away from the cameras and it showed,they had it all and at one point all four members had a belt to their name at the same time,this caused jealousy of course.
The group were the ultimate villains,attacking dusty rhodes,magnum t.a and many more and causing savage beatings,they were arrogant and did some great interviews that got the crowd frothing at the mouth to have their heads in a basket.
Of course things changed and members left and were replaced with inferior replacements,lex luger was terrible,barry windham was a horseman in my eyes,dean malenko was good as was benoit,sid vicious was garbage and the interview with flair on him is very real indeed,paul roma doesnt deserve to be mentioned but as he says himself he was a horseman so there and then mr perfect was given arns spot as a horseman when he retired,which is high praise.
The dvd comes with a generous documentary which is packed with interviews,some spoken in kayfabe and some are very good shoots(breaking character),we get grat insight and some very real honesty indeed.
The second disc comes with some great matches and some not so and of course many will cry for matches that should have been there and arent but thats the way it goes,i found this a terrific documentation on a very cool group who dominated sports entertainment for years and paved the way for many a group to follow,great stuff.