Kevin Costner's Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 takes 3 hours to clear the stable

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The first installment of Kevin Costner's planned four-part epic, 'Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1,' is half parts gorgeous and dull as dirt.

Partially gorgeous, partially dull as dirt, Kevin Costner’s big bet is only part of a movie, but may not hook many.

Growing up, my father would show us old movies and occasionally blurt, “Ah, they don’t make ‘em like this anymore!” It was the ultimate backhanded compliment. Whatever was happening had some old-school Hollywood sweep, but the tipping point came at a moment of retrograde politics from with my old man and take a shot of rotgut whiskey each time he’d utter the phrase, the local sawbones would declare me dead before the midway point of the picture.

Notably, halfway through is a full 90 minutes, and that’s just for the first of a planned four individually released films in thisis in production now.) What’s strangest about this three-hour movie, though, is that despite some deadly slow patches, it still feels like an hour was cut from it, considering how characters develop off-screen.

But Kevin Costner is in this movie, right? Yes, and, sad to say, his storyline is actually the least interesting. Before trouble came to Horizon — all ants and scorpions and heat — Ellen is in snowy Montana Territory and shoots a man what done her wrong. She packs up with her infant and flees. The man’s two large adult sons, Junior and Caleb , will move heaven and earth to avenge pappy — though to look at Caleb, he still finds a way to bring his personal stylist out to the range.

 

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