Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

Horizon is big and bold and majestic, with cinematographer J. Michael Muro capturing those expansive Utah vistas and John Debney’s score making sure that the film sounds just like the Westerns that play in the heads of everybody...

There's nothing original about it... But I thought it was a serviceable Western.

The three-hour epic is dull, frustrating and sleep-inducing.

On its own, however, Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 is a long trek to nowhere very much.

By the end of it, you're still waiting for the story to start... It never giddies up. It just sits there.

This is the kind of handsome, well-nourished film-making that looks an absolute treat up on the screen, but is about as authentically Old West as a set of dental veneers. Still, it’s not uninvolving.

Were this a limited television series it would be showered with awards. As a film, and much to my irritation now that I’m hooked in, it very likely is not even going to have an ending.

A super emotive and impassioned movie that's incredibly well-made. [Full review in Spanish]

... it may ultimately be best served as longform TV, less a film cycle than an epic miniseries charting the westward march of American settlers.

Comes together like a jigsaw puzzle - an epic jigsaw puzzle. Does enough to make me want to see Chapter 2 and Chapter 3.