| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C+ |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"...a rousing, old-fashioned desert adventure." more... |
B |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"Led by a lackluster star, Hidalgo doesn't have enough horsepower." more... |
C+ |
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"...Hidalgo is a throwback to a more innocent time..." more... |
B |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"...a sometimes stirring, sometimes preposterous movie." more... |
C+ |
| E! Online |
"...there's an admirable Raiders of the Lost Ark action-adventure quality to it..." more... |
B- |
filmcritic.com
David Levine |
"... an excruciatingly long 133 minute rough-cut with little truth and little meat between the bones." more... |
C- |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"A splendid re-creation of a long-distance horse race across the Arabian desert runs into a sandstorm of melodrama and racial cliches." more... |
C |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
"...Hidalgo suffers from weird shifts in tone..." more... |
C |
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell |
"...given the young audience the film is intended for, the picture may be like having to finish an entire pot of broccoli to get a couple of jelly beans for dessert." more... |
C- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...a sporadically entertaining adventure movie that is hampered by poor pacing, a badly focused screenplay, and cheesy special effects." more... |
C+ |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
"If you can’t guess the ending, you’ve probably never seen a movie..." more... |
C |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"It's not as if we haven't seen movies like Hidalgo before...and yet there's something fresh about it all the same." more... |
B |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...the movie is a crowd-pleaser." more... |
B |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...limited by one-dimensional, even stereotypical characters and a predictable and drawn-out plot." more... |
C+ |
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