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  Review by William T. ★★★★★

  One of the most underrated and overlooked films ever in my opinion, Hidalgo is a fantastic adventure film with an investing plot, beautiful cinematography, terrific action and set pieces, great direction by Joe Johnston and all led by an outstanding lead turn from Viggo Mortensen. This really is one of my personal favorites of all time that I feel like nobody really talks about. Saw this in theaters back in 2004 and have done nothing but sing its praises and recommend it to everyone I know ever since. I love this movie so much.

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  Review by sofi✨ ★★★ 1

  fun fact i used to rent this movie so much as a kid my parents ended up talking to the video store owner and bought it from her so now i still have the vhs at home

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  Review by Sabrina ★★★

  That horse was almost as beautiful as Viggo Mortensen's face

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  Review by EGG ★★★★

  i'd become a horse girl for viggo mortensen, and viggo mortensen alone

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  Review by RyanChag ★★★★

  I’ve come to the conclusion that “what if Viggo Mortensen got to play Indiana Jones but he was also a horse girl” is the best idea for a movie ever created actually

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  Review by hunter ★★★½

  i think viggo mortensen saying “nobody hurts my horse” was my sexual awakening as a youth

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  Review by MatureGambino ★★★★★ 1

  Stands the test of time. If I look at how Star Wars or Indiana Jones are valued, this movie is so underrated. Sure, just like in those two, there is some cringey dialogue here too and the claim of a true story can be ignored, but "they don't make 'em like this anymore" is very accurate for this film. There's a serious lack of adventure movies.

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  Review by maneleeo ★★★

  An adventure film starring Viggo Mortensen, a cowboy on a long distance horse race through the desert, during the 1890's. It's an exciting journey that is reminiscent of such films as "The Mummy" (the Brendan Fraser one), "Pirates of The Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" and of the classic heroes of cinema portrayed by Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks.

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  Review by Ayden The NinjaPirateBear ★★★

  2004 Ranked
  Non-2020 First Time Watches Ranked
  Directors Ranked: Joe Johnston

  I have to say, this is a pretty underrated adventure film. And when I say underrated, what I mean is that nobody talks about it, like at all. It has some nice sequences, a good performance from Viggo Mortensen and really underrated cinematography.

  So why did I only give it three stars? Honestly, I don't remember jack shit about the story, so it isn't like it left a lasting impression on me. All I remember are the two things I mentioned above; Viggo's performance and the cinematography, which is truly beautiful.

  I recommend this one if you like Western Adventure films, or Viggo Mortensen, or great cinematography. Maybe on a rewatch, it'll resonate with me more, but it's far from bad.

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  Review by QDB ★★★ 2

  Despite being a very enjoyable rip-snortin underdog story seemingly ripped from the Golden Age of Hollywood, “Hidalgo” could be the poster child for films based on gigantic lies.

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  The half Native-American Frank Hopkins is slumming it at Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show with his faithful horse Hidalgo, when he is approached to compete in the legendary Arabian horse race, the Ocean of Fire, which spans 3,000 miles across a desert, if Hopkins wants to keep the title of "the world's greatest distance horse and rider". Hopkins begrudgingly accepts and enters the competition despite the fact that he may not survive it.

  Factually speaking, only two things are true to real life in that summary. There was a man named…

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  Review by More_Badass ★★★

  Serial pulp unapologetic in its swashbuckling fun and dated white-hero-in-foreign-lands faults, Hidalgo isn’t Joe Johnston’s best go at the style. But Viggo is effortlessly good in this desert race adventure fraught with the genre’s dastardly villainy and swashbuckling set-pieces. Swordfights, sixshooters, death pits, spike traps, sandstorms, a princess, a tortured past; it’s all here, albeit rendered with a dash of self-seriousness as opposed to pulpy charm.

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  Review by A Western Man ★★★★

  I'm a total sucker for this movie and I'm not sure why.