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This film has several points of interest. To begin, remember the importance of the horse to the man. The horse is truly our best friend. However, despite being an adventure film, it is not as adventurous as other such films. It has moments of great psychological depth, calm, humor and even sad moments. All this has value. I, at least, I was not displeased or felt that the film deceived me. Sometimes what deceives us is advertising.Vigo Mortensen plays the lead role, with his mustang horse, and get a good performance, full of humanity and feelings, particularly visible when you talk to the horse or recalls his forebears. Your character is a man marked by conflicts against the Indians, with whom he sympathizes, to the point of knowing the language. Omar Sharif is also participating in this film, giving life to the Arab sheik, the host horse racing that the film portrays. As usual, the actor managed another great performance. The scenarios are great, as are displayed desert landscapes. The dialogues were very well thought out and avoid inelegant words.This is a family film, essentially based on humanistic values ​​and is recommended for the whole family.

Of course, a Spielberg's Indiana Jones wanna be.I like Viggo so much, I could watch his movies with closed eyes. He doesn't have a impressive (read very expressive) play, but he is pleasant to watch and has a rather constant play.The set up, the photography are beautiful if clearly exaggerated with postal card overwhelming 'reddish' looking images. This could have been a beautiful adventure movie, but it lacks a single item. Because of this, it's a dish not only without salt, but also without spices.The missing item is called directing. Not that it doesn't have it, it's just awful. Joe Johnston was a poor choice for this movie. It makes it look like a b series movie with the actors moving slowly, saber fight scenes poorly directed than Power Rangers fights, slow image change in action takes, and so on.Because of this, the movie lacks pace. There are action/adventure movies with slow pace, but that's another level of mastering the art of directing.

When I was younger, and first got into seeing movies seriously in theatres, Lord Of The Rings was a huge thing. Every actor in it was scrutinized and put on a pedestal of worship by myself and peers whose passion lay in film. Many of the actors in that trilogy were for us at a young age relatively unknown, prompting strict attention as to what their further ventures beyond Middle Earth would be. Viggo Mortensen, being one of the stars of the show in LOTR, was naturally under my burgeoning cinematic microscope and therefore I was eager to rush out and see whatever else he did during and post Aragon. That's what led me to Hidalgo, a rousing western adventure about aging cowboy Frank T. Hopkins, who takes his beloved wild mustang hidalgo for one last race, aptly named the Ocean Of Fire. It's a brutal slow through hundreds of miles of hellish desert situated in the Syrian gulf and on through Damascus, with every earthly obstacle imaginable chomping at his spurs. Hopkins is a shadow of his former racing glory and enters the contest as a last ditch effort to rekindle dimming glory, and at the request of a wealthy sheik (always nice to see Omar Sharif) whose interest has been piqued by Frank's infamy. And so he enters, not quite knowing what fresh hell he is in for, and the movie takes off into pure joyous escapism. Mortensen already proved with LOTR that he makes an iron solid hero, and here he dons the cloak of rugged underdog with equal fire and brimstone. The photography starts in magisterial Montana and moves to the scorched beauty of the Arabian desert as he and hidalgo hurl themselves into the challenge of both their lifetimes in attempt to win gold and glory. Along the way he encounters many obstacles including bandits, plagues, the mother of all sandstorms and the sheik's gorgeous daughter Jazira (Zuleikha Robinson, excellent). There's nice supporting work from Louise Lombard, C. Thomas Howell, J.K. Simmons and a sly cameo from Malcolm McDowell. It's old school adventure done right, with dazzling scenery and a pillar of a lead performance from Mortensen.

Traumatised by his part in the Wounded Knee massacre, rider Frank Hopkins leaves the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show and accepts a challenge to take part in the 3,000 mile Ocean of Fire endurance horse race across the Arabian Desert.Based on Hopkins' self-related life story (which, it appears, contains no verifiable facts and must, therefore, be regarded as of questionable accuracy or less), Hidalgo - the name of Hopkins' mustang - is an exciting and enjoyable action adventure movie, albeit one which suffers from shifting moods. The opening, with Wounded Knee and Hopkins' spiritual malaise in the Wild West Show promises some emotional depth but, despite Viggo Mortensen's typical intensity and integrity, what follows is Boy's Own action adventure stuff, including an exciting princess rescue mission as well as the privations of the race itself.The movie is enjoyable, but without the depth it might have had.