Atom User Reviews for Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1

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Victor Victor

It’s not a bad movie but it’s a really unfocused movie with a lot of subplots and characters. Hard to keep track. This might have been better if it released and edited as a mini-series.

JH
James Heinzman
#actionpacked
#mustsee
#epic

A great set up to an interesting saga. Lots of storylines that will come together over the course of the next three films. Can’t wait for the second installment in August!

CM
Chandra Mason
#actionpacked
#mustsee
#epic

Can’t wait to see the next Chapter

ML
Mark Ludas

Good old-fashioned (90s-style) entertainment. Just sit back and soak in the time, place, and people.

PS
Phyllis Stier
#great
#mustsee
#epic

Really a good American story!

RF
Robert Fann
#actionpacked
#original
#epic

Great movie!

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Phil Gran
#greatcast
#original
#slow

3 hours of incoherenceis with so many stirylines are little long and boring. Unfortunately this movie seems like it was made by people who have no understanding of how to write and edit a consistent story. The one positive note I can give is that the cinematography and…

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Patrick Auriemma
#actionpacked
#intense
#epic

Should have waited for it to be streaming. 3 hrs long needed too many bathroom breaks no pause button.

CF
Connor Findlay
#boring
#slow

Felt like a waste of time. So boring, so slow.

BP
Bruce Pitner
#slow

Slow and boring. Story seemed to lack focus. Characters were not interesting. I love Kevin Kostner but this movie ranks as one of the worst I have ever paid to see. I’m not planning on watching the next movie.

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Gertrude Schwarz
#slow

I was expecting some good entertainment, it was awful, no connection, it kept jumping from part to part. Don’t bother making a sequel

SK
Savannah Keo
#actionpacked
#mustsee
#epic

Such a great movie, if you’re a Yellowstone fan you must see this movie. The casting, story line, setting is incredible and a must see. I can’t wait for the next saga 2 coming out on Aug 16. My husband loves Yellowstone and Kevin Costner. Y’all need to see it!

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Neil Kumar

Gorgeous film, one of the two best Westerns of the 21st century

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Tyler Huff

Keep me going the whole time!!! Loved it will see it again

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lew lew
#greatcast
#mustsee
#epic

Beautiful story with plenty of action, drama, and history. Kevin Costner is pure genius 👏

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Gary Lasky

Absolutely no character development, a sprinkling of a storyline, where the only thing I could come up with, is that every group is tied together with the goal to make it to a lush, green countryside in a place called Horizon…

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H G

Too many sub plots in the movie, there were so many opportunities to develop a strong story line but the movie kept switching to another territory, I was really disappointed.

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Natasha Thomas-Longanecker

Should have been a tv movie.

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Jared Robertson

We rate movies on 1-4 scale. But Sometimes a movie is so epic in its meandering, so tepid in its vision, and so lackluster in its delivery that something else is needed to convey the absolute wheels coming off the wagons that Horizon is. This movie is so bad that I cant…

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elizabeth boisvert

Not a “must see” at all. Beautiful cinematography, for sure, but it is slow, no original plot, a kind of “what’s the point?” kind of movie.

IB
Isabelle Brennan

Too much going on. Terrible acting. No story line. Disappointed

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Alan Mendel

Beautiful scenery and filmmaking, multiple stories weaved together, looking forward to part 2 next month, nothing surprising

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Liz Smiley

So here’s the thing… I didn’t realize going into it how long this movie is. That aside, beautifully shot great cast! Deff slow because it’s laying the groundwork for part 2 coming out in August if what I heard is correct there’s gonna be 2 more after so idk liked it but…

AM
Arnie Maestas

Horizon is a good story, it's just slow and somewhat predictable. It could have been told in two hours instead of three.

KG
Kimberly Gomez

It was so boring and so many stories happening I didn’t have time to even get into the characters. Such a long movie for nothing to happen so disappointing.

TG
Tom Green

This movie jumped around, had no true plot. It was horrible.

NV
Nikki Vosburg

Surprised how much we all liked it

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Jason Thompson

I really wanted to like this film but it felt like you were thrown into a familiar storyline where a number of the characters weren’t developed enough to be truly vested in any of them. At one point the film felt like I was binge watching a Western miniseries for 3 hours. …

RB
Rose Barrett
#slow

Story line was fine, but too many individual stories were disjointed and confusing. LOVED THE SCENERY!

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C B
#slow

boring

TA
Traci Allan
#epic
#mustsee
#original

What an incredible chapter 1.

TR
Teresa Rose
#slow

To many story lines, very disappointed. Couldn’t keep up with the unfinished sagas

PM
Pat Martindale
#original

About what I expected for the 1st of a 4 part series.

LD
Leslie Demetrakos
#intense
#leslie
#mustsee

Great!! I can’t wait for part 2

JP
JAMES PARMENTER
#slow

I went mainly to support Kevin Costner. Not a big western fan but maybe I could be converted. I lost the theme almost immediately and that continued until the end. They gave a few snippets at the end about what the next chapter(s) will be like. I think I'll give Horizon…

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Catherine Murphy
#notmyfave
#slow

Choppy story line,hard to see how it will go other than slow and the last 5 minutes of vignettes was wasteful

NM
Nancy McArdle
#original
#epic
#greatcast

Looking forward to the next episodes

DA
Darnell allen
#blockbuster
#mustseebro
#mustsee

Me and the wife went to see the movie because of Kevin Costner and Yellowstone. She went to sleep half way in while watched it all the way thru . Don’t go if u can’t stray awake 3 1/2 hrs

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Albert Adame
#greatcast
#intense
#great

Great western that slows down quite a bit in the third act. Definitely better suited for a mini series due to this being the first of four films in the saga, but still a fantastic movie going experience.

DK
David Krueger
#epic
#mustsee
#intense

It may be 3 hours long but flies by.

BN
Bill Nichols
#original
#slow
#greatcast

too much unnecessary dialogue. hopefully the next three parts will bring it together

DV
Deanna Valeriano
#mustsee

action all the way, didn't seem like a 3 hour movie!

JB
judy bruce
#great

Started out slow but the next series should be good!!

DF
Dale Fricker
#hardtofollow

Hard to follow. The story. Jumping around too much.

JM
Judith Martinez
#slow

Good but slow moving expected more action

MH
Mark Hairston
#boring
#snoozefest
#slow

Slow and long for no reason. Better off watching when it comes to a streaming platform.

SA
Salvador Avila
#mustsee

Can’t wait for the remaining parts

DS
Dylan Shick
#slow

the movie suffers from too much going on. Everything thing is entertaining for the most part, but it jumps around alot and when it does it does it fi too long. otherwise a beautifully crafted film.

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Andrea Tracey
#slow

should've been good but disappointing. why the side drama with saloon girl?

KH
kerwin howard
#greatvisualfx
#mustseebro
#greatcast

Great western

Metacritic

50
Jun 24, 2024

Well-acted as far as superficial characterizations allow (Costner and Jon Baird share screenplay credit) and impressively mounted for a wide-open-spaces pageant that, quizzically, was not shot in widescreen, “Horizon” is most successful at filling its frames with ambition.

Metacritic review by Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
San Francisco Chronicle
40
May 23, 2024

The first chapter in Kevin Costner's epic western series is a meandering, regressive snooze.

Metacritic review by Siddhant Adlakha
Siddhant Adlakha
IGN
42
May 20, 2024

Costner is fully in traditionalist mode here, painting a quote-unquote sweeping American saga that feels like an expensive miniseries compressed into feature form.

Ryan Lattanzio
IndieWire