Review: The first part of Kevin Costner's 'Horizon' is an overstuffed Western epic, but gorgeously captures Utah's natural beauty and gives room for a couple dozen characters

It’s a bit weird to critique director-star Kevin Costner’s Western epic “Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter I,” because, as the last two words of the title suggest, we’re only getting a piece of it.

This sprawling three-hour movie, featuring more than two dozen significant speaking roles, is the first of two that Costner filmed across large parts of southern Utah last year — and he plans to make two more this year to finish the story. (Whether his distributor, Warner Bros./New Line Cinema, will pay for those two movies is a question that likely will be settled by this weekend’s box office.) So buckle in and saddle up, people, because we could be riding the range with Costner & Co. for a while.

Read the full review at sltrib.com.