Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

It’s too early to declare Horizon a success, a disaster, or even a noble failure, though this first instalment makes it clear audiences traveling west with Costner should prepare for a lengthy trek.

Horizon is big and bold and majestic, with cinematographer J. Michael Muro capturing those expansive Utah vistas and John Debney’s score making sure that the film sounds just like the Westerns that play in the heads of everybody...

There's nothing original about it... But I thought it was a serviceable Western.

The three-hour epic is dull, frustrating and sleep-inducing.

On its own, however, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 is a long trek to nowhere very much.

By the end of it, you're still waiting for the story to start... It never giddies up. It just sits there.

Costner is consistently deconstructing the myths of the American West, of manifest destiny and the idea that these people had a claim to anything. He shows us, and them, that this promised land of profit and glory never even existed at all.

To be fair, it is difficult to judge the film since it is only 1/4 of the whole story.

It's an above-average production, but we cannot conclude anything yet, as we have not seen the end. [Full review in Spanish]

Looking for the sweeping scope that personifies the full title’s concept of saga, Costner stumbles along the way as he cross cuts between places and characters, failing to make all connections clear.