While the film might be more fiction than fact, it’s still a great experience for those who love a good, adventurous horse-racing movie.

| May 19, 2023

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.

| Jun 29, 2022

Although some of the colonial stylization is impressive, this Mortensen post-"Rings" vehicle is pure horse neck and camel meat.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 18, 2019

The film itself can't seem to decide whether it's a Saturday morning serial for the kids, a new Indiana Jones, or something with a bit more dramatic heft

| Feb 1, 2018

Sharif grounds the silliness a little. When he looks across the desert with those eyes that have always hinted that hard weather is coming, everybody else rushing around the set looks overdressed for a costume party.

| Dec 18, 2017

...the film's hold on the viewer dwindles steadily as it enters its progressively dull midsection...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 10, 2016

If you take it as historical fact, it's got a world of problems. But if you're just in the mood to be entertained, it can be a decent piece of Saturday afternoon escapism.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 17, 2016

Whether or not the events depicted really happened to Hopkins, it's still a damn fun story.

| Apr 18, 2014

Formulaic, overly simple, too violent for tweens.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

The event around which the movie revolves is a desert mirage, since there is no record of any such race ever being staged. Nonetheless, those able to ignore this outrageous historical distortion might enjoy this triumph of an underdog aganst the odds.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2007

Even if the story were true, the film's events have been fictionalized beyond belief.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 25, 2006

| Original Score: C | Jun 1, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 2, 2005

[It's] so careful about being inoffensive that it never has the guts to suggest much of anything except 'Be Nice to Others and Especially to Horses.'

Full Review | Original Score: C | Dec 31, 2004

| Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 7, 2004

Will Hidalgo survive the brutal desert to demand more creative control over his next film?

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 16, 2004

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.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 1, 2004

This is grand cowboy fun, a wild adventure with a glorious sense of excitement and wonder.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 4, 2004