Billy Bob Thornton, Dennis Quaid, Emilio Echevarrķa
The roads cross at San Antonio de Bexar at a small, ruined mission called The Alamo--a place where myth meets history and legend meets reality. In the spring of 1836 nearly 200 Texans--men of all race...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 28, 2004
Stats: 589 reviews
So I finally managed to watch this after I've been living in TX for the last 8 some years. Visited the Alamo loads of times and learned about the history of course. The cast was amazingly put together and i was very impressed on who was in it. Once again dennis Quaid very good, B...( read more)
"You will never forget"
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
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Spectacular and extroadinary. Deeply moving, captivating and absolutely breathtaking. A fierce, powerful and excellent epic filled with emotion, drama and awsome battle sequences. It's a triumph. It's a totally compelling true story. The cast is truly outstanding, they consume th...( read more)
Lots of patriotic junk, but the battle scenes were fun, and Billy Bob playing the violin is alright too. Especially when he gets shot lots.
Good news Billy Bob Thornton is good but the rest is bland, long and incrediably painful to sit through
This movie's portrayal of Mexican volunteers courageously fighting for the independence of Texas, makes it more accurate that the earlier 60s film with the same title (contemporary historians estimate that about 60% of the defenders of the Alamo were Mexican volunteers). Mark Bl...( read more)
It may be history, but it's too meticulous to be believable. full review
Succeeds in taking those pop-culture brand names like Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie and giving them human form. full review
This is a profoundly ahistoric movie -- a definitive Hollywood muddle. full review
Teeeerrrible. Horribly dramatic for a war movie. The americans look like heroes, and the mexicans like villains, even when the americans started the war for expanding their territory. The battle scenes looked good (only that it earned one star for me). Too passionated for a war movie, i think not even Dr King was that excited during his speech. The difference is that dr Martin Luther King Would have earned a 6 star, and this thing doesnt deserve even one and a half. Good actors, for drama movies.
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