Box Office
Flop · 0.8xBudget$50M
Worldwide Gross$38.7M
Horizon delivers a classic Western epic of frontier settlement and survival without identity politics or social messaging, making it safe neutral entertainment at a low 3/10 woke score.
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 is a traditional epic Western centered on 1859-1863 frontier settlement in Arizona and Wyoming territories, following white settlers establishing the town of Horizon, an Apache raid on the settlement, survivors' journeys, and a separate subplot of a cowboy (Kevin Costner as Hayes Ellison) on the run with a woman and child after a killing.
The core premise revolves around Manifest Destiny, land disputes, and personal survival stories without identity politics or systemic oppression narratives as the foundation. Casting features Costner, Sienna Miller as widowed settler Frances Kittredge, Sam Worthington as Lt. Trent Gephardt, and other established actors in lead roles, with Native American performers like Owen Crow Shoe as warrior Pionsenay and Tatanka Means as Taklishim in supporting Apache roles that align with the historical setting rather than any swaps of pre-existing characters.
We've run a full content analysis on Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 and scored it 3/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
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