Kevin Costner has mortgaged his beloved California beachfront home in Santa Barbara to help finance Horizon. (Image: Getty) Kevin Costner wept tears of joy at the Cannes Film Festival last month when he earned a seven-minute standing ovation for his new Western epic Horizon, which opens in the UK on Friday. “I’ll never forget this,” the visibly moved 69-year-old told the audience, revealing that there will be “three more” instalments of the Horizon saga, with the first sequel set to hit cinemas in August.
But the star of Dances With Wolves and The Bodyguard could soon be shedding tears of sorrow if moviegoers fail to embrace the films with the same passion Costner possesses. Contravening Hollywood ’s cardinal rule of never making a film with your own money, Costner sunk £30million of his own cash into the Horizon series, in which he stars, directs and co-wrote. But Cannes festival audiences are notoriously eager to please stars in their midst and early reviews have savaged Horizon, branding the three-hour Western slow, boring and, according to one critic: “The worst movie of the century.
” The BBC ’s Nicholas Barber called it “dull and plodding, and full of stultifyingly slow dialogue scenes”. The Daily Beast dubbed it “a misogynistic, racist . .
. mess”. Horizon has a dismal 43 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which aggregates review scores.
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