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Message: [QUOTE="ZooCougar, post: 5036758, member: 296"] [B]Horizon: Chapter One(2024)[/B] Saw this tonight. And I read Pal's review and I concur with it mostly. It's three hours. Yes three hours. And there are three more movies coming. First off, we were easily the youngest people in theater. This is not a Dad movie, it's a Grandad Movie. The place was packed with blue hair boomers. They literally started clapping when the movie started which was sort of adorable. I think they were hoping to see Ponderosa. It's kind of dry, but it's watchable because it's punctuated with a few moments of genius. There is one thing really remarkable about it that I am sure will ruffle some feathers on both sides (If anyone watches this) which I will address later. The movie is four story lines. Most reviews will say there are only three because they forget to mention the Native American one, which is distinct in my opinion. The southwest with Sienna Miller and Sam Worthington, Montana with Costner, and the Santa Fe Trail with Luke Wilson. I give Costner some credit here. His character breaks his normal mold a bit. While he has all of the normal impeccable survival instincts, he winds up manipulated by a younger woman and roped into getting chased by a bunch of sociopaths. The fourth is the Natives, which is basically a group of Apaches that split in two. One group is younger and driven by violence and killing settlers and another that thinks that nothing good will come from declaring open season on the settlers. This one is really well acted and Costner handles it well, and was for me one of the few interesting parts of a film that really doesn't break much new ground. Costner buddies Will Patton and Danny Huston are in this too. Hopefully they have a bigger role going forward. Michael Rooker is good playing an Irish Cavalry Sergeant as well. There also a couple of English idiots with Luke Wilson that are there for the audience to dislike and laugh at. The other characters hate them too. I think this is Sienna Miller's first movie without Werewolves. She does a good job here besides basically just looking great. Worthington is the US Army's oldest Lieutenant ever. Luke Wilson is basically Sam Elliot's character from 1883 except obviously younger. All three/four plots seem to be converging on some settlement called "Horizon" that seems to have been overrun by the Natives multiple times. The part that is remarkable in this movie, and I basically think it's almost a really clever troll by Costner in that he really doesn't take sides. It's a pretty grown up take on the whole situation. The Natives are very rational in defending their territory and pretty naive about the doom wagon heading their way. The settlers also appear to be rational in seeking space and opportunity but also incredibly naive and oblivious about the impact they are having. Oh and there is the fact that people already live in this place that they still think is empty. Basically everyone with some exceptions is portrayed as flawed but also honorable. The rest on both sides driven by blood lust and greed. The sequences and scenes are long, and Costner seems to be trying to make a point. In the beginning there is a brutal Apache raid on a settlement. It goes on and on. One part that was gut wrenching was when one family decides to blow itself up with black powder than let the Apaches kill them, it definitely is meant to link the movie to current events. But the best part is the next day when the Cavalry shows up. Worthington asks the survivors, what they were thinking? "Didn't you see the the crosses where the last batch of settlers were buried? Are you stupid?" Danny Huston quips later, "next time don't build your town on an Apache river crossing. Not bad. [/QUOTE]

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