and a throwback to the time of john wayne western and where people do what they do for the right reason and not for power and glory . this movie have just a hint of darkness and a in the conversation between bill cody and the chief who ask cody to rescue the mustang . but for the most part and it be full of light . a story of personal redemption for a man who felt more than guilty for see the wrong that be happen yet chose to say and do nothing . only one thing bother me about the film i think at time hildalgo look at hopkins with eye that be perhaps computer effect . i know that the story be an exaggeration and but it do not matter . it remind me of the tall tale of paul bunyan and or davy crockett and or daniel boone . do we ever question their truthfulness . i be tire of the cynical sophisticate who take all joy out of life in the name of art and reallity . be reallity television more real than hidalgo . the reallity be that we need story and myth to give power and meaning to our life . when hopkins accept that truth and he be empower and strengthen enough to finish the race . in choose to accept the reallity of hidalgo and i be accept although temporarily that myth have power and meaning .