So I was eating dinner last night with the family, and my mom found a copy of Hidalgo, and said something along the lines of “I love this movie” and put it in the DVD player. There was nothing else on, so I figured that it couldn’t be that bad. I was wrong.
The movie starts out with this guy who owns a horse, who does long-distance endurance horse racing for a living. He rides a mustang, which is considered a piece of junk back then. (Late 1800’s.) Horse is named Hidalgo. What a surprise, right? So apparently, the guy is really sensitive about his horse, and he loves it, and so on. At one point, he has to deliver a letter to a bunch of U.S. troops occupying an Indian village. The orders say to move the Indians off the land, so they don’t rebel and attack the nearby towns and cities. They start disarming the Indians so there’s no chance of an attack, and one of the Indians doesn’t take too kindly to that. He attempts to shoot one of the men, but instead fails miserably. The troops open fire on the Indians, killing every last one of them. The main character feels responsible for some reason, and decides to drink himself into a stupor every day. Three months later, he’s working in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show (which is awesome), when suddenly a Middle Eastern guy shows up and demands that Hidalgo’s rider (his name isn’t ever mentioned, or not that I caught) have his title as the fastest horse rider in the world or whatever revoked. That can’t happen, so he goes over to the middle east and does this huge race across the desert for glory and cash monies or something like that.
I honestly had no interest in the film whatsoever, but I was determined to see it through to the end. The characters were hollow, the action was droll at best, and there were no special effects to speak of. The camerawork and audio were very well done, so that’s saying something, at least. I would give it 2 stars out of five, simply because the actual filming was done very well, but the actors and the plot were hollow and nonexistent, respectively.
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Hildago was a GOOD movie. I think you were watching something else.
Characters: rounded
Action: um, epic race across the desert and battles and such?
Special effects: The giant wall of dust-death didn't impress you?
4 out of 5.
No, I was watching Hidalgo. I'm pretty sure of it. And the views of solely Spencer Roberts are also not the sole views of Rambler Productions. Rambler Productions is a conglomerate of people, ideas, and talents, all working together to achieve a goal. So yes, in a sense, the views and opinions DO reflect that of Rambler Productions and its affiliates, mostly because I AM BOTH IN THE PRODUCTIONS AND I AFFILIATE WITH IT. Unless there's some secret initiation or some toll I had to pay in order to be affiliated or involved with "Rambler Productions" as a name.
We could arrange a secret initiation for you. 😉