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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 starts really good. For me, it has the real western atmosphere. Strong in many ways, but has one thing that causes trouble and I wish to explain that from my point of view.

It has many small scenes and minor characters that need to be tied back to events seen an hour and a half or two hours earlier. It struggles to handle everything it wants to convey. It tries to tell too much, and Costner couldn't fit it all even into a three-hour film. This is undoubtedly a writing issue.

Even editing it in some other way wouldn't have helped much either.

Because of that, a hard watch, requires attention.

7/10, got me curious about Chapter 2.

A revenge-story, and the 1000th mute main character. But it's officially proven, that the god-knows-how-many-time made story can still be enjoyable. It worked for me, at least.

You just have to sit back and let yourself flow with the movie and the character, and I have no doubt, you're not gonna hate it. The tension is there sometimes, script is well-written.

And you can't make a mistake when you're blessed with an actor like Michael Fassbender. He's impeccable in the role of The Killer, really suits him.

Tilda Swinton also welcomes us for a short time in the movie, exceptional as always.

In sum, David Fincher's new creation is nothing new, but slightly different, somewhere thrilling, somewhere "sleeps", but it would be a crime to miss out.

It's raping the whole franchise. Lorie and Loomis are just disgusting. They messed up all the characters. Giving Michael real feelings, thoughts, a face, the visions... just horrible.

4 points for the cool photography and the brutality. They also got the sound mixing and editing right. And of course Brad Dourif is exceptional in his role, as always.

Still one of the worst of the franchise.