Review by lizshotter

Costner has been trying to green light this saga since 1988, the audience in 1988 would have loved this but 2024 is a different landscape in cinema. There's more competition and choice than ever and this story line is more hallmark channel than cinema. The storyline, the characters are well worn tropes, like a western panto. The clear markers of good men rescuing helpless, but grimly determined, white pioneer women from the well established bad guys has been done to death, by Koster himself time and time again. This won't pass muster when compared to The Power of the Dog.and Slow West, which challenge our assumptions and perceptions of the genre. We're more sophisticated than we were in 1988 and Koster has sunk a big chunk of his own cash into a giant sprawling dud of a saga.