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‘Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2’ Review: Kevin Costner’s Ambitious Western Project Frustrates Once Again
Despite often superb, old-school western technique, Kevin Costner's 3-hour-plus 'Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2' is just as unwieldy as part 1
Meanwhile Frances, disappointed by Trent’s departure (“War is a good refuge for you men who don’t know your own cause yet” she observes tartly) insists on moving back to her burnt-out homestead with her daughter Elizabeth (Georgia McPhail), to await the arrival of her dead husband’s widower brother, whom it is assumed she will marry. Costner’s own storyline, involving the building grudge-match between his taciturn gunslinger Hayes Ellison and the vengeful bad-guy brothers on his trail is thin gruel by comparison, especially while he’s separated from his prostitute love interest (Abby Lee) who spends most of this movie hiding in the dirt under the wooden floorboards of a bar/brothel. And as though Costner and Jon Baird’s screenplay can support only one non-white ethnic angle at a time, on this occasion the Native American characters barely get a look in, and their screentime is donated instead to a group of Chinese settlers, led by the (sigh) inscrutable Mr Hong (Jim Lau), who move in next door to Frances, renovate a sawmill, and put up a teahouse.
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