This piece is a place holder.
I saw the first part of Kevin Costner’s sprawling epic HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA and I’m going to hold off before I really do a review until I see the later parts. I say this because the film feels like the beginning of something and not a complete film. Yes it ends at a break, but this is a film that is clearly part of a bigger film.
To be honest I know why people have hated this. It’s very old school in it’s telling. From the old Hollywood style opening sequence on through the rest of the film, this feels like film from six or seven decades ago. There is nothing wrong with that, it just requires that you give yourself over to it. Also it doesn’t help that there are ton of characters wandering through this and we are well over an hour in until it begins to settle down and we get a handle on things.
None of this is bad, it’s just more that this is a film that is going to go its own way. Because its so long it’s a tough ask to tell people that you are going to have to come back just as it gets going.
Is it worth seeing?
Yes. There looks to be a hell of a tale here. I’m curious if Costner is going to pull it off…. But we’ll see.
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