Hondo does that thing that westerns always have done. It appeals to the most basic of human instincts and works its mystique to involve audiences from around the world (…) The name Hondo captures the imagination and the plain, simple, and overdone storyline just seems to vanish as the audience identifies with the characters while hoping there will be a happy ending, but not completely sure there will be one. You expect a blockbuster and you don’t get it. It’s a B-grade movie, but somehow one doesn’t care and walks away satisfied that everything turned out just exactly as it should have (…) Reasonably good western. Ben Meyer