You’ve got to expect some pretty big things from a film that uses the massacre at Wounded Knee as a mere starting point. Add Viggo Mortensen fresh from his stint as Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s excellent Lord Of The Rings trilogy, and how can you not expect big things? And if that’s not enough, we’ll throw in some genuine Arabian sheiks and breathtaking cinematography… oh, and there’s horses. With a combination like that you simply can’t go wrong, or can you? Hidalgo isn’t by any definition a bad film, but it had far too much going for it to be a hair above average. Continue Reading
