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The film is now in theaters.
Its about an hour intoKevin Costners westernHorizon: An American Sagawhen Kevin Costner shows up.
Part Two, we know, has already been shot and will be released this fall.
Was Costners bellow one of triumph or an apology?
Its rich in period detail and filled with majestic vistas that seem to match the expanse of its story.
Something of this size needs a shape, and right now,Horizonis basically just a rising line.
We meet the characters, and nobody changes.
Random bits just drift in out of the air.
A couple of familiar faces peek out from one scene or another.
The incompleteness can be a problem in other ways too.
There is some context for the massacre.
In other words, this is not a sanctioned or safe settlement.
The men are gone.
But where theyve been, thousands will come, he tells the brash young warrior.
Sometimes, its an attempt to save money, fitting multiple movies under one production budget.
Me, I blame the noxious influence of television, with its constant need to serialize everything.
Horizon or, at least, this section ofHorizon is a bit different.
Its stately pace never feels boring, so it doesnt feel like it should have been shorter.
But it also doesnt really work on its own.
It gears us up for something that never quite comes.
It sets up characters we dont really get to know.
Should Costner have just debuted it as one six-hour movie?
Id watch that movie, but I havent seen that movie.
