Hidalgo

Mortensen is ruggedly handsome, with star power to spare, but Hidalgo doesnt prove anywhere near as memorable, sturdy, or fleet footed as its eponymous wonder horse. ( Read More )

The result is a seriously conflicted work thats too violent and overlong for its intended family audience and too derivative to compare with its action adventure progenitor, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, to which Johnston contributed visual effects. ( Read More )

Elvis Mitchell

Hidalgo, which opens nationwide today, is one of the few movies that seem to be making up their plots as they go along; actually I thought Hidalgo was making up the story as he went along.The film glorifies the horses questionable exploits and endurance: hes certainly smart enough to have typed it, not to mention shrewd enough to keep quiet. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

Bold, exuberant and swashbuckling, it has the purity and simplicity of something Douglas Fairbanks or Errol Flynn might have bounded through. ( Read More )

Nell Minow

In 1890, courier Frank Hopkins (Viggo Mortenson) and his dappled mustang Hidalgo were the undefeated champions of endurance riding competitions, races of hundreds, even thousands of miles. ( Read More )