{"id":27658,"date":"2024-07-02T08:55:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/?p=27658"},"modified":"2024-07-07T16:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T21:23:20","slug":"horizon-an-american-saga-chapter-one-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/02\/horizon-an-american-saga-chapter-one-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Horizon:  An American Saga Chapter One Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"27658\" class=\"elementor elementor-27658\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3bf5752 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"3bf5752\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c0a6dcb\" data-id=\"c0a6dcb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1caec63 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1caec63\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Kevin Costner&#8217;s new movie, Horizon:\u00a0 An American Saga Chapter One was released on June 28 of 2024.<\/p><p>As the title suggests, it is definitely chapter one of a four part story.<\/p><p>This movie involves frontiersman going west to settle on land, covering 160,000 acres.<\/p><p>Of course, this is Indian land and the Indians don&#8217;t take too kindly on these people trying to settle down on their land.<\/p><p>This movie involves several groups of people.\u00a0 Frontiersman, Indians, Cavalry, outlaws, and many of their story lines mix together.<\/p><p>It reminds me of the Centennial mini series I saw this year (review <a href=\"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/16\/centennial-movie-mini-series-review\/\">here<\/a>) except it definitely focuses on a certain period of time (1859 in this movie).<\/p><p>Costner, who stars\/directed\/co-wrote this movie, does not show up until much later in the movie.\u00a0 He ends up getting involved in something that he had no idea would involve him, but it does.<\/p><p>This is definitely a passion project for Costner.\u00a0 He has said in interviews that he had an idea for this as far back as when he was going to do Dances With Wolves.\u00a0 He is making these movies with his own money, so whether they are hits or not, he wants these stories out there.\u00a0 Got to admire that.<\/p><p>This movie has a very good cast.\u00a0 Along with Costner, it stars Sam Worthington (Avatar movies, Terminator Salvation), Michael Rooker (Guardians Of The Galaxy 1 and 2, Tombstone, The 6th Day, Replicant, Cliffhanger, and so many more), Jeff Fahey, Luke Wilson, and even has a few Yellowstone co-stars (Danny Huston and Will Patton).<\/p><p>That&#8217;s just some of the cast.<\/p><p>Again, this is going to be an epic saga and this is just chapter one.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>Costner in this movie set up a lot of the story line and characters that you will see in the later movies.<\/p><p>I took my Dad to see this movie because, like me, he is a huge fan of westerns.<\/p><p>It is three hours long, but it does not feel like three hours.<\/p><p>We enjoyed it and look forward to chapter two in August and hopefully three and four next year.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element 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As the title suggests, it is definitely chapter one of a four part story. This movie involves frontiersman going west to settle on land, covering 160,000 acres. Of course, this is Indian land and the Indians don&#8217;t take too kindly on these people trying to settle down on their land. This movie involves several groups of people.\u00a0 Frontiersman, Indians, Cavalry, outlaws, and many of their story lines mix together. It reminds me of the Centennial mini series I saw this year (review here) except it definitely focuses on a certain period of time (1859 in this movie). Costner, who stars\/directed\/co-wrote this movie, does not show up until much later in the movie.\u00a0 He ends up getting involved in something that he had no idea would involve him, but it does. This is definitely a passion project for Costner.\u00a0 He has said in interviews that he had an idea for this as far back as when he was going to do Dances With Wolves.\u00a0 He is making these movies with his own money, so whether they are hits or not, he wants these stories out there.\u00a0 Got to admire that. This movie has a very good cast.\u00a0 Along with Costner, it stars Sam Worthington (Avatar movies, Terminator Salvation), Michael Rooker (Guardians Of The Galaxy 1 and 2, Tombstone, The 6th Day, Replicant, Cliffhanger, and so many more), Jeff Fahey, Luke Wilson, and even has a few Yellowstone co-stars (Danny Huston and Will Patton). That&#8217;s just some of the cast. Again, this is going to be an epic saga and this is just chapter one.\u00a0\u00a0 Costner in this movie set up a lot of the story line and characters that you will see in the later movies. I took my Dad to see this movie because, like me, he is a huge fan of westerns. It is three hours long, but it does not feel like three hours. We enjoyed it and look forward to chapter two in August and hopefully three and four next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-movie-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27658"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27781,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27658\/revisions\/27781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanardentfan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}