Horizon An American Saga Chapter 1 | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

Retroactively treating the frontier as the direction in which we were always headed is a slick way to absolve individual settlers of making the decision – then and now – to benefit from genocide.

The often bewildering and somewhat underwhelming first installment of Kevin Costner's Western epic is long on characters but short on story.

Instead of kickstarting a stimulating overview of survival and antagonism, the feature just lays on the screen, mostly lacking dramatic inspiration and concise writing.

The film’s impressive sense of scale and majesty is amplified by the swirling John Debney musical score. It’s just a pity that the exposition is so clunky and so slow on the draw.

Nobody has done more to keep the western flame kindling on the big screen than Kevin Costner, but the audacity of his latest rodeo feels like overreach, if not outright folly