“Horizon: An American Saga” is Kevin Costner’s decades-in-the-making passion project. So why does the first film in the series lack passion?
“Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1” marks Kevin Costner’s return to the Western genre that brung ‘im into stardom nearly 40 years ago. This first part constitutes a stern handshake agreement with his audience: Just get through these first three hours, people. Quit your bellyaching.
But actors are at the mercy of their material. Chapter 1 of “Horizon” is wide but shallow, and wanly dramatized in between the passages of violence, some well-staged and effective, others more generically brutal. The movie surely wins the Loudest Splurch sound design award; when an Apache arrow hits a human target, it’s as if the arrows were literally wired for sound.
It’s Apache land, and the white colonizers have put literal stakes in it to claim it for themselves. This leads quickly to a retaliatory Apache massacre, contextualized a bit by a handful of scenes in Chapter 1 devoted to, or at least concerned with, Apache warrior brothers Pionsenay and Taklishim and their tribal factions. Two survivors of the massacre, brutally widowed Frances and her daughter Lizzie , are taken in by the kindly Union Army officer played by Sam Worthington at a nearby fort.
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