A snappy movie, edited bravely with cuts that aren't in the "easy-watching" style of other Spielberg spectaculars. It also reads as a fulfillment of what may have been the director's longing to film galloping horses in breathtaking locations the way his antecedents did.
Good casting, too (except for a bland-out performance by Julian Glover), including adroit use of hammy Denholm Elliott and the clever forging of a consequential family relationship between two movie idols by keeping them inches away from…
