Wow! Such a good movie.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Can't believe I have never watched this. It's the type of film you have to go into with an open heart & mind. Rest assured it will then blow your mind. There are parts hard to watch which add to what makes it epic. This was an experience. Definitely ignore every nay sayer on this one and do yourself a favour and don't go so long like myself never having watched it having never heard of it before. You won't regret it. If you have a love for all life then this is the film for you. Wish I could live that experience again from scratch.

Usually, here in Mexico the titles of movies change radically, but not for good. For instance, "Rush Hour" movies became "An Explosive Couple", "Bourne Identity" became "Unknown Identity", "Despicable Me" becomes "My Favorite Villain". Do you know the title of Resident Evil? The Cursed Host… which actually sounds pretty good in English… but in Spanish sounds like… well. Something else that is compromised is the continuity of the following titles: like, "Resident Evil: Apocalypses" has no Spanish title, but that is another story.There are a couple of films that has been better with the title given to them here. I'm pretty sure people would have liked the more "Pearl Harbor" with the subtitle "Between Passion and Fire" on it. It prepares you for a war-romance flick (when you are watching mostly romance with war as a subject and time-space scenario, but is kind of what you were expecting).When I saw this movie on TV a couple of months ago, I didn't know it was "Hidalgo", the 2004 movie whom commercials trailers where not attractive to me. That was before I knew what it was about. This is simply one of the most entertaining pictures I have ever seen on my whole life, I've watched it like four or five times since. It has the right amount of adventure, action and comedy, half western and half racing.But I believe it could have been something different with the real name. Here, the name was the name of the race ("Ocean of Fire") which I think depicts better the script. If you consider it, "Hidalgo" prepares the spectator for a movie about the horse, something like,… I don't know, "Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron", "Babe" or something like it…"War Horse". But the story about Hidalgo, how it was born, how it was trained, the same story filmed with a different view point, focus in the horse, when it is about the cowboy, Frank Hopkins and an adventure in the middle of Arabia. So, when I heard "Ocean of Fire" I knew it was going to be about the race, but I also found a beautiful story about Indians, civil war soldiers, a terrible past and a very weird friendship.Maybe that is why I liked it so much.

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.

However far-fetched this ripping yarn may be, it is undeniably clever, moving and enjoyable. Other reviewers for this have missed the key point, that the hero's horse is a brilliant metaphor of himself. Hidalgo is a tongue-in-cheek reference to a Spanish aristocratic naming convention, meaning 'The son of', while Mustang is most likely ultimately etymologically tied to the Latin word for 'mixed'. Both rider and horse are half-breeds, taking on the finest Arabian thoroughbreds. I watched this film with a class full of Saudi male students of English. Apart from the whiskey, there was nothing I felt to be too strong for Islamic conventions here. The students were charmed by the classical Arabic of Omar Sharif, and the respect shown by the hero for the Arab world.