Hidalgo (2004)
46 %
Reviews Counted: 156 Fresh: 72 Rotten:84 Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus:
The scenery looks great, but this overstuffed horse story contains too much cheese.
Runtime: 2 hrs 16 mins
Theatrical Release: Mar 5, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $67,249,474
Synopsis: A breathtakingly photographed, epic western like none produced for decades, HIDALGO recounts the life of legend Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen). Set in the 1800s, this family film chronicles the triumphant victory won by Frank and his mustang Hidalgo in the Ocean of Fire, an often-fatal... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif, Zuleikha Robinson
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The event around which the movie revolves is a desert mirage, since there is no record of any such race ever being staged. Nonetheless, those able to ignore this outrageous historical distortion might enjoy this triumph of an underdog aganst the odds.
04/25/07
Even if the story were true, the film's events have been fictionalized beyond belief.
09/25/06
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02/09/06
[It's] so careful about being inoffensive that it never has the guts to suggest much of anything except 'Be Nice to Others and Especially to Horses.'
12/31/04
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11/19/04
Will Hidalgo survive the brutal desert to demand more creative control over his next film?
09/16/04
Fitfully entertaining hokum as long as it isn't taken too seriously… Remarkably, Disney doesn't whitewash the more politically incorrect elements of Hopkins' tale.
09/01/04
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08/07/04
Top Critic
This is grand cowboy fun, a wild adventure with a glorious sense of excitement and wonder.
08/04/04
...why weren't the Disney folks content simply to tell a good story? Could it have been because they knew they didn't have a very good story?
07/29/04
You would think that playing loose with the facts would make the filmmaker's job easier, but they use the freedom to stuff the script with unnecessary pit stops.
07/05/04
The film's most harrowing scenes are predictable and utterly unoriginal.
06/13/04
The picture plays out with the robust character of the old Flash Gordon movies.
06/03/04
The stereotypes and blatant propaganda wouldn't irritate so much if the action itself wasn't so relentlessly dreary -- a desert of imagination, parched of original ideas.
04/20/04
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