Horizon movie

[Scott Engelhardt]

The wife and I went to see this movie tonight. Lots of hype on this movie. What a turd, we left half way through.

 

[Photon440]

Perhaps it was just building for a more dramatic final 90 minutes? Haven't seen it myself.

 

[Belvedere408]

I thought about it but it’s three hours I can’t sit still that long, less I’m sleeping.

 

[Kern Dog]

The wife and I went to see this movie tonight. Lots of hype on this movie. What a turd, we left half way through.

This isn't much of a description of the movie or the content of it. I didn't know what you meant until I looked it up.
How about this:

Plot[edit]​

In 1859, in the San Pedro Valley, a party of surveyors mark stakes to outline the borders of a forthcoming frontier town, Horizon. Soon after, Desmarais, a missionary, seeks out Horizon and discovers the surveying party dead at the hands of a Western Apache war band. He buries their bodies and establishes the town of Horizon.

Four years later, a flourishing Horizon is set upon by an Apache raid led by Pionsenay, killing several residents, including the husband and son of Frances Kittredge. Local boy Russell flees to alert the Army at the nearby Camp Gallant. The Army, led by 1st Lt. Gephardt and Sgt. Major Riordan, assists with the burial of the dead, and the recovery efforts of the survivors. Frances and her daughter Elizabeth leave with the Army to seek sanctuary at Camp Gallant, while Russell joins a posse led by fellow survivor Elias Janney and scalp-hunter Tracker to go after the Apache. Gephardt warns the posse of indiscriminate retaliation against the Natives driven by scalping profitability. Frances and Elizabeth adjust to life at Camp Gallant. Gephardt's non-interventionist moral code regarding Indigenous land clashes with his fellow officer’s manifest destiny ideology. Elizabeth befriends several Army soldiers and is heartbroken when they are called back East to fight in the Civil War. Frances and Gephardt begin a romance.

Pionsenay argues with his tribal elder Tuayeseh over his raids on the settlers. Pionsenay believes that the settlers will push them out and lead them to war against other tribes, while Tuayeseh believes in co-existence and considers reprisal for Pionsenay's actions. Pionsenay and his warband, including one of Tuayeseh's sons, voluntarily leave the tribe to continue their campaign against the settlers.

In Montana territory, Lucy shoots James Sykes and flees south to Wyoming with her young son Sam. With Sykes wounded, the family matriarch Mrs. Sykes orders her sons to go and recapture her. Living under the name Ellen Harvey, Lucy marries businessman Walter Childs and cohabitates with Marigold, a prostitute working independently. Marigold propositions horse trader and customer Hayes Ellison, before she returns home to care for Sam while Walter and Lucy depart for one of Walter’s land sales. Walter and Lucy realize that the land buyers are the Sykes brothers, Caleb and Junior. Walter is accidentally killed by Caleb as the men kidnap Lucy. Junior, the eldest brother, sends Caleb to find Sam in town, where he encounters Hayes. They both go to Lucy's home where Hayes kills Caleb in a shootout when he realizes Caleb is going to kill Marigold. Hayes flees the town with Marigold asking him to take her and Sam with him. Settling in a railroad working camp, Marigold abandons Sam and Hayes for a traveling gambler who offers her a life with security. She leaves the child to the care of a Chinese workers' family.

A wagon train led by Matthew Van Weyden treks the Santa Fe Trail to Horizon. Among the group is the pretentious British couple Juliette and Hugh and the extended family of Frances' late husband. As they travel, they are watched by a pair of Pawnee scouts, causing them to slow their progress and prepare to defend themselves. When Juliette catches two men peeping at her as she bathes in the drinking water, Van Weyden must warn the two away from the couple but neither appears to intend to listen.

Russell’s posse encounters and intimidates an Indigenous man in a gun shop, but Janney and the gun shop owner deescalate it from turning into a bloodbath. Due to the lack of results in finding Pionsenay's band, the group decides to go after any Indians wherever they can find them. They learn of a Tonto Apache village nearby and wait for the village's hunting party to depart before massacring and scalping the women, children, and elderly of the tribe to Russell's horror. The posse rides away, leaving before the hunters can return to take their revenge.

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