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‘Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1’ Review: Sprawling Yet Thinly Spread, the First Part of Kevin Costner’s Western Epic Feels Like the Set-Up for a TV Miniseries
The first part of Kevin Costner's Western epic feels like the set-up for a TV series. It jumps around too much while explaining too little.
And a good portion of the movie is built around the violence that erupts between settlers and Indigenous tribes — a theme that takes it back to the age when American Westerns were flagrantly racist (which isn’t true of “Horizon,” though when it comes to dealing with Native issues the film is not without its problems). We see an Apache raid that ends up in apocalyptic fire, and experience it from inside the home of Frances Kittredge ( Sienna Miller) and her daughter, Diamond (Isabelle Fuhrman), the two of whom hide in a hole under the living room, which is so airtight that they have to poke a rifle out of the ground and use the gun barrel as a breathing tube. The film hop-scotches to a ramshackle town where Marigold (Abbey Lee), a perky prostitute in blonde ringlets, is caring for the illegitimate son of Lucy (Jena Malone), who has abandoned her family after trying to kill the man who made her pregnant.
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