"Costner has abandoned his small-screen success for a triumphant return to the big screen, only to make a movie that's basically television."
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The script, which he co-wrote with Jon Baird (you know where this is headed), awkwardly flips between no fewer than four distinct storylines, spread across the West of 1859, right in the middle of the Civil War. Across 181 interminable minutes, Costner will jump from Arizona to Montana to Wyoming to Kansas, following half a dozen or so dozen characters, several of whom don't show up until well into the ...
