Word: viggo
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There is little substance in Hidalgo. Ostensibly, the film is based on the true story of Frank Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen), a long-distance horse-racer who is invited to partake in “the Ocean of Fire,” a 3,000-mile horse race across the Arabian Peninsula. Hopkins’ horse, Hidalgo, is a mustang, a wild mixed-breed horse that was introduced to the Americas with the arrival of the Spaniards to the New World. In the world of horse racing these mixed-breeds are considered, according to the movie, unworthy to share the road...
...know, it’s kind of sad. Viggo Mortensen, one of the great under-appreciated actors of the last decade, finally finds mainstream success with The Lord of the Rings trilogy (even in a part that was not even his when filming began) and then follows up three years of countless magazine covers and nonstop press with Hidalgo, a Disney movie that couldn’t get much more cliché if it included Mickey Rooney’s Mr. Yunioshi character from Breakfast at Tiffany?...
...being too harsh; for all its faults, the film is cheeky and rather fun. Some of the cinematography is amazing, capturing perfectly the barren beauty of the desert. But, in the end, the cliché-driven script is just too much, even for such accomplished and talented actors as Viggo Mortensen and Omar Sharif...
...LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING Directed by Peter Jackson Starring Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen...
...planet (that's Tom Cruise), but he has jumped Cruise and Tom Hanks in many directors' casting wish lists. "He gets offered everything--or everything good--first," says an agent. (Crowe turned down the Hugh Grant part in About a Boy, the Laurence Fishburne part in The Matrix and Viggo Mortensen's role in The Lord of the Rings, among others.) But where Hanks and Cruise insinuated their way into moviegoers' hearts by exuding amiability on-and offscreen, Crowe has pulled off a far more unlikely trick: he is one of the world's biggest stars and is frequently perceived...