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Hidalgo
Directed by
Joe Johnston
PG-13
2004
2h 16m
Action
,
Adventure
,
and more
6.7
46%
64%
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In 1890, a down-and-out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race.
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Cast of Hidalgo
Viggo Mortensen
Frank Hopkins
Zuleikha Robinson
Jazira
Omar Sharif
Sheikh Riyadh
Louise Lombard
Lady Anne Davenport
J.K. Simmons
Buffalo Bill Cody
Adoni Maropis
Sakr
Silas Carson
Katib
C. Thomas Howell
Preston Webb
Chris Owen
First Soldier
Frank Collison
Texas Jack
Victor Talmadge
Rau Rasmussen
Adam Alexi-Malle
Aziz
Harsh Nayyar
Yusef
Joshua Wolf Coleman
The Kurd
Saïd Taghmaoui
Prince Bin Al Reeh
Peter Mensah
Jaffa
Franky Mwangi
Slave Boy
Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman
Chief Eagle Horn
Elizabeth Berridge
Annie Oakley
Kimberly Guerrero
Frank's Mother
Zac Badasci
Young Frank Hopkins
Stevan Rimkus
Military Cistern Lieutenant
Jerry Hardin
Nate Salisbury
Marshall Manesh
Camel Skinner
George Gerdes
Major Whitside
Todd Kimsey
Corporal at Wounded Knee
Malcolm McDowell
Major Davenport
Mo Brings Plenty
Ghost Drummer
Hidalgo Ratings & Reviews
Denver Post
Michael Booth
Popcorn for us and oats for the horses, delivered by the tall drink of water that is Mortensen.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
An adventure that never met a cliche it couldn't saddle, mount and ride for a butt-numbing two hours and sixteen minutes.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It's not as if we haven't seen movies like Hidalgo before -- the cowboy, the horse, the hat -- and yet there's something fresh about it all the same.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Suffers from weird shifts in tone, offensively outdated stereotypes, a cumbersome subplot -- and a supposedly fact-based story that bears only a nodding acquaintance with reality.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Whether it's true or not has little to do with whether it works as a movie, and overall it does, thanks to Mortensen's slightly hesitant charm ... and some dazzling visual work from director of photography Shelley Johnson.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Entertaining, although it suffers from uneven pacing, one tangential and overlong plot development near the climax, and several mediocre process shots.
Decent Films
Steven D. Greydanus
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.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Formulaic, overly simple, too violent for tweens.
eye WEEKLY
Adam Nayman
Slow, plodding and arduous, though spiked with occasional hiccups of excitement.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
It's a bit of an oddball story, but surely there was a less plodding way to elaborate on it.
Observer
Rex Reed
An exciting, colorful and very appealing movie.
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
It's a manqu of a rousing adventure tale and not the real thing. You're constantly aware of the gulf between how the movie wants to excite you and the halfhearted execution.
Village Voice
Benjamin Strong
A hybrid of both traditional and revisionist contradictions.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
... filled with cliches.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
One rousing, if rote, adventure.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Lawrence this ain't; not by a long shot, and certainly not by a dromedary's nose hair.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Limited by one-dimensional, even stereotypical characters and a predictable and drawn-out plot.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
This big-budget western bears a striking resemblance to the recent Tom Cruise vehicle The Last Samurai, though it's more fun and less pretentious.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Bold, exuberant and swashbuckling, it has the purity and simplicity of something Douglas Fairbanks or Errol Flynn might have bounded through.
Boxoffice Magazine
Sheri Linden
The dunes flow but the narrative lurches in this based-on-fact tale striving for grandeur.
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