Hidalgo: Critic Reviews

94%

MovieWeb: 2 reviews

47%

RottenTomatoes: 166 reviews

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

50

Never quite settles into its paces.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Elvis Mitchell New York Times (Top Critic)

20

This primitively plotted family action adventure is one of the few movies that seem to be making up their plots as they go along.
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Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

Limited by one-dimensional, even stereotypical characters and a predictable and drawn-out plot.
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Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

Lawrence this ain't; not by a long shot, and certainly not by a dromedary's nose hair.
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Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post (Top Critic)

One rousing, if rote, adventure.
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Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

63

Like most movies about men and horses, Hidalgo spares no expense in matters of corniness.
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Benjamin Strong Village Voice (Top Critic)

A hybrid of both traditional and revisionist contradictions.
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Jami Bernard New York Daily News (Top Critic)

50

It's a bit of an oddball story, but surely there was a less plodding way to elaborate on it.
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Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

59

As sheer popcorn-munching fun, it's an often-rousing action-adventure that confirms Mortensen as a star.
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Philip Wuntch Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

50

Opulent, overlong and uneven.
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Michael Booth Denver Post (Top Critic)

75

Popcorn for us and oats for the horses, delivered by the tall drink of water that is Mortensen.
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Peter Rainer New York Magazine (Top Critic)

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

75

Bold, exuberant and swashbuckling, it has the purity and simplicity of something Douglas Fairbanks or Errol Flynn might have bounded through.
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Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

63

Far too tolerant of cliches and too seduced by its own special effects and battle scenes.
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Carrie Rickey Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

63

An intermittently savory stew of Pecos Bill, Laurence of Arabia, and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
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Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

Mortensen does an exquisite job of revealing just enough of the bottled-up angst to make us aware of the internal turmoil his character battles.
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Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

67

This is a bigger-than-life, feel-good yarn with just enough dramatic charge to keep it from floating away.
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Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

50

Feels like an old-fashioned Western, but not in a good way.
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Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

An exciting, colorful and very appealing movie.
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Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

50

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.
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Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

40

it's a flaccid affair, a movie that could stand to lose about 30 minutes right off the top.
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Peter Howell Toronto Star (Top Critic)

60

A thrilling race with cartoon contestants.
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Jennie Punter Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

75

It takes a thoroughbred star like Mortensen to make the bond between man and horses believable, and to keep Hidalgo from straying too far into fields of corn.
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Charles Taylor Salon.com (Top Critic)

It's a manque 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.
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James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

63

A sporadically entertaining adventure movie that is hampered by poor pacing, a badly focused screenplay, and cheesy special effects.
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