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Hidalgo (2004)
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Reviews Counted:155
Fresh:72
Rotten:83
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: The scenery looks great, but this overstuffed horse story contains too much cheese.
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... [More]
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Reviews for Hidalgo
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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. Full Review |
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Even if the story were true, the film's events have been fictionalized beyond belief. Full Review |
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C |
[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.' Full Review |
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3/10 |
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2/4 |
Will Hidalgo survive the brutal desert to demand more creative control over his next film? Full Review |
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C+ |
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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
This is grand cowboy fun, a wild adventure with a glorious sense of excitement and wonder. Full Review |
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5/10 |
...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? Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
The film's most harrowing scenes are predictable and utterly unoriginal. Full Review |
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3/4 |
The picture plays out with the robust character of the old Flash Gordon movies. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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