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Horizon: An American Saga star Michael Rooker defends Kevin Costner's $100m three-hour box office flop: 'It's real cinema, folks'


Despite underwhelming at the box office in its opening weekend, Horizon: An American Saga star Michael Rooker is still defending the Western.

Despite underwhelming at the box office in its opening weekend, Horizon: An American Saga star Michael Rooker is still defending the Western. While there were some speculation that director/star Kevin Costner's epic Western saga would flop at the box office, fans certainly didn't flock to theaters on opening weekend. When asked if he thinks modern movie audiences are 'TikTokified a bit,' preferring tiny bite-sized videos to long-form storytelling, Rooker agreed.

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Kevin Costner, the American Western, and the American ego: Horizon is a baffling, incoherent mess. Kevin Costner making it was probably inevitable.