Kevin Costner returns to the genre in which he has long held legendary status, and it seemed he had exhausted the topic, but it turns out he still has much to say... because this is just the first three-hour part of four.

The film is good, but... Firstly, it feels completely out of date. This is Costner from the '90s, but not from the beginning, at the level of "Dances with Wolves," more like the late '90s with "The Postman." That's the impression I had while watching Horizon. I remembered that sentimental style from that film, the tear-jerking and pathos in every other scene... I remembered watching that film with my dad, and here's the twist... we kinda liked that film 😜 And as I sat in the theater watching Horizon, I was hit by nostalgia for those times and completely bought into how Costner tells this epic story. And the story is indeed epic. In the first part, we watch two stories that, at certain points, branch into additional plots, so we follow four or five stories in total. But two are dominant. In the first, we follow the fate of a woman and her daughter, who, after an Apache attack on the budding town of Horizon, come under the care of Union soldiers. Of course, at some point, we get a brief look from the Apache perspective.

In the second story, we see Costner's character, who accidentally gets into trouble and has to flee a town in Montana with a prostitute and a small child. Just explaining these two plots would take me three hours 😉 The best part is that after two hours (I checked my watch), a completely new plot with new characters suddenly begins. In this plot, we watch a caravan of pioneers crossing the wilderness towards Horizon. It's crazy, but he film watches very well. All the plots are interesting, and we want to know how the fates of these characters will unfold. It seems that all these plots will intertwine, with the central idea being the town of Horizon itself, showing how the Wild West was won through blood, sweat, and tears.

My biggest complaint is about the ending. I expected it to be cut off, without a proper conclusion. Instead, we get a montage of clips from the next part, which, in my opinion, reveals too much and somewhat spoils the atmosphere. I felt like the film ended with a trailer. I know they wanted to entice viewers, but it would have been more elegant to cut the story off and write "to be continued."