Horizon: An American Saga is the worst film ever made

[MorrisZapp]

It's my own fault, the reviews were shit and I already knew that Costner had bankrolled it himself but I love westerns and I couldn't help myself.

Dear god it is a mess. A turkey. Drivel of baffling proportion. And it is three unforgiving hours long.

The actors are OK and the scenery never fails but the entire thing looks like a soap opera from the 90s. The script is diabolical and in many places unintelligible or just nonsense word salad.

Costner has embarrassed himself by casting an incredibly beautiful young woman who he saves and who then falls in love with him. Oh god the cringe. Their 'love scene' is the most ill judged in cinematic history.

The racial politics are appalling (red savages v white angels) and the violence far too gleefully squelchy.

The plot has huge, unexplained gaps in it and doesn't lead to any resolution or tension whatsoever.

It. Is. Three. Hours. Long.

And it ends with a ten minute montage of things that haven't happened yet, to entice viewers back for part two. OF FOUR.

Costner is the Joe Biden of film making. I love the guy, I love the old stuff he did. But someone needs to stage an intervention.

Godless on Netflix and 1883 on Paramount are the gold standard of modern western production. This guff is sub par daytime telly at best.

Just needed to get it off my chest.

Bumping for the teatime crowd

I loved Godless and 1883.

Just letting you know.

Thank you my sister in Western appreciation, it means a lot

Ironically, the silly plots in Horizon play out like Downton Abbey, meanwhile her off Downton Abbey blazes up the screen in Godless.

I'm sorry you suffered OP but I did enjoy your description! Also fond of a western so thanks for saving me

Just doing my job ma'am

I watched it and came to the conclusion that it must have been made for another tv series and for some reason they changed their minds and went with a cinema release (hence the next instalment is already filmed and coming to cinemas in august). They have a total of over 6 hrs footage, some tv-series-like dialogues, prolonged scenes and the soap opera romance. All screams tv drama to me.

Boosting for the weekend posse

Apparently he's been planning it for twenty years! Yet appears to have written it in twenty minutes.

I thought you'd like this article from Variety @MorrisZapp - Costner has put millions of his own money into it.

"What this means is that “Horizon,” with an $11 million opening weekend and a $100 million price tag, has the potential to be not only a financial train wreck, but the kind of train wreck that unfolds in slow motion over the course of months. In the case of “Chapter 3,” it involves building the train even as it’s in the middle of crashing. That’s a lot of box office pain to buy for $38 million"

Absolutely spot on, thanks for the link! I think the writer was actually being kind. Horizon doesn't hold up against the TV shows I mentioned above.

Costner also directed one of my all time favourite films, Open Range. Fabulous, subtle, beautiful, romantic. A western to dream about. This saga will run and run, and may end up as a lesson on the pitfalls of having all the money in the world and nobody saying no to you.

Is this Kevin Costner of Waterworld - worst ever film - notoriety?

The film in which Nicole Kidman played Grace Kelly is a contender too.

Oh thanks for this. I was interested.

The actors are OK and the scenery never fails

😂 Talk about damning something with faint praise!

I read a lot of good reviews in different places. Always good to make your own opinion.

Oh! I'm in a minority of one - I loved ot!!!

I love Kevin Costner and wanted to love it, but it killed me. You took every word out of my mouth