Seabiscuit with balls, Hidalgo swings its horse dick in your face and leaves you on the floor panting. so good you'll want to come twice.

Everything is staged big with no real or actual scope. Mortensen is almost too perfectly cast and rarely does he stop milking the sensitive side long enough to be interesting. The movie itself, as a times-past adventure story, is square and simple, often anticlimactic (the race interests us more than its' politics - but is often set aside); As it repeatedly gives the underdog his time to shine (almost to complete and utter redundancy, but nevertheless), the film becomes - much like Johnston's Jurassic Park 3 or Jumanji - the perfect afternoon escape, reflecting the robust, stripped-down pleasures of 80s Spielberg pics.

Now here's a movie whose existence I completely forgot about. I remember it had to do with horses and the desert, but that's about it.

8.0/10

In what was probably his first starring role in Hollywood, Viggo Mortensen did an excellent job in Hidalgo, a beautiful and highly entertaining movie that offers wonderful sceneries, an inspiring story and a marvelous cinematography. Its old-fashioned approach is what probably put off some critics and viewers, but I thought it worked perfectly fine and this resulted in a mostly brilliant adventure film.

Just another one of those movies that's hard to turn off if it's on tv and someone's channel surfing. The tide goes out, and the surfing takes a break until it comes back in.

Seabiscuit with balls, Hidalgo swings its horse dick in your face and leaves you on the floor panting. so good you'll want to come twice.

One of those fairy tale movies that you got to love

Everything is staged big with no real or actual scope. Mortensen is almost too perfectly cast and rarely does he stop milking the sensitive side long enough to be interesting. The movie itself, as a times-past adventure story, is square and simple, often anticlimactic (the race interests us more than its' politics - but is often set aside); As it repeatedly gives the underdog his time to shine (almost to complete and utter redundancy, but nevertheless), the film becomes - much like Johnston's Jurassic Park 3 or Jumanji - the perfect afternoon escape, reflecting the robust, stripped-down pleasures of 80s Spielberg pics.

Enjoyable even after I've seen it a few times.

A well intentioned if unengaging film. Hidalgo has a couple of good set-pieces but they never save the film from its a poorly paced script. It has some beautiful shots in it too but there really is little else to recommend it.

2 out of 5 (C)