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User Reviews for: Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

tvwatcherdenver
7/10  7 months ago
As with all Costner western passion projects, this is much better than others let on. People talk about the rotation of characters in the beginning and how their story wasn't built up, but the first third of the movie is just that, building up the characters and setting in the past for the present that occurs in the movie and for that I thought it was captivating.

Costner knows how to capture the American west. While I think 3 hours was a bit long for this movie, it was very well done and very fair to all sides - knowing that the truth of the west sits somewhere between American history and Indian history.

He does a fantastic job of depicting what life was for the earliest settlers of the west and that even once things are established, there's no guarantee of a total disaster. It was a hard life and it's really shown well in this movie.

If you like westerns or are passionate about the American west (as I am, living in the heart of it) then you'll probably like this movie. It's a good western and it's a good history of the west. A bit long? Sure, and you do feel that a few times, but in the end it's worthwhile as the acting is extremely good, but it does drag here and there.
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