The Alamo

  • 2004


MOVIE IS opportunistic historical accurate emotional entertaining
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32 %
29 % Rotten
$ 25 Million
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Positive Reviews 21
Negative reviews 31
Average Rating 2.3/5
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2.8
Never harmonizes into a cinematic experience any more resonant than the average, manly, why we fight pic, or coalesces into a stirring cry for freedom .. EW
4.4
Succeeds in taking those pop culture brand names like Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie and giving them human form. Rogerebert
0.6
Overall Criterions Bruce Lee set is as wonderful as youve heard, boasting definitive restorations and enough supplements for at least two semesters wo ..
2.5
The film lacks the emotional, doomed punch for which its so clearly striving.
2.0
In re enacting the actual events surrounding the storied 1836 battle, this oppressively solemn historical action movie is both elegiac and trivial. The New York Times
2.5
Did we learn nothing from John Sayles when he closed Lone Star with the line, Forget the Alamo E Film Critic
2.5
Apart from a fiery cannonball hurtling a little too artfully through the air, Hancock resists special effects. San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
But great performances and big Texas skies cant fix disjointed storytelling and bland action sequences. Cinema Blend
1.5
A big, sprawling movie with remarkably little grandeur; whats worse, its emotionally hollow...with cardboard characterizations and wooden dialogue. One Guys Opinion
2.5
Emotionally inert and poorly paced, The Alamo transforms one of Texas best known events into an uninvolving bore. ReelViews
2.5
Its so slack it feels interminable, but its too short to flesh out the complicated set of historical and individual circumstances that converged at th .. Tv Guide
3.2
While Hancock did a credible job with his previous work, the more personal The Rookie, he doesnt have quite the range, yet, to give an ambitious film ..
3.1
Instead, the movie is a mild compeller for history buffs, and occasionally its better than that. Usa Today
1.9
But its entertaining enough (if predictable), in a Bad News Bears/Mighty Ducks sort of way. Reel Film Reviews
2.5
This film is mainly for people who are interested in history, not entertainment. Lariat
2.2
But again, we must accept that just because something really happened doesnt necessarily mean it makes for good filmmaking. Eric Ds Nider
1.3
Its dull, derivative, and as lifelike as a heap of historical figurines. Cs Monitor
1.5
For much of the time, its a desultory tour through period movie hell, complete with carefully aged costumes and cement like chunks of exposition. Film Journal International ..
2.5
The buildup to the fighting doesnt go on forever, but it feels like it. Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
2.5
So stiffly didactic it would have high school kids who see it beg their social studies teachers to stop taking them to movies about history. Internet Reviews
2.5
While the movie flirts with rewriting history, it neatly sidesteps anything too revisionist, or else just doesnt explain itself. Mountain X
1.5
But Thornton juggles all the contradictions of Crockett now hes a bit of coward, now hes a bit of a hero; now hes a cocky SOB, now hes touchingly vuln ..
2.0
Although handsomely mounted, and boasting some historically immaculate dressing and impressive battle sequences, its a movie that ultimately cant conv .. Toronto Star
1.5
For a big budget epic from a studio that isnt known for its historical (or artistic) revisionism, this is a very respectable effort. Slate
2.0
The Alamo isnt so much Hollywood cheese as it is a big bowl of weak queso that couldve used a couple handfuls of jalapeos. Flim Threet
2.0
Sluggish, talky and unfocused, its downbeat revisionism robbing its historical figures of the iconic status that would have made their story worth ret .. Bbc
2.5
Truth be told, for most of its running time The Alamo plays like a vague, badly written history lesson aimed at grade schoolers. The Movie Boy
3.0
The Alamo is corny, rip roarin and dont need no stinkin political correctness. Las Vegas Weekly
1.9
Not even good sets, plenty of historical detail, and Billy Bob Thornton can put life into director John Lee Hancocks slow moving, poorly acted Texan s .. Hollywood
4.2
Indeed, Thorntons graceful performance is the soul of the movie and one of the best things hes ever done. Seattle Pi
1.0
Virtually nothing happens inside the Alamo thats of any interest. Tony Medley
1.8
This dog of a movie confirms that in 1836 Texas was stolen from Mexico by a bunch of opportunistic bastards whose descendants went on to use similarly .. Coles Mithey
2.5
Arriving in theaters today, the resulting $100 million dollar motion picture is a flawed, sprawling examination of the Mexican American conflict that .. Movie Freak
4.5
He lets the audience connect to characters in an emotional way that many epic adventure films never do. Cnn
3.1
And yet, the movies best scenes and its best performance dont take place in San Antonio at all. Spliced Wire
2.2
Slowly paced, does little to make you care about the people who gave their lives during this bloody time and is, well, just boring. E Online
1.5
The battle, when it finally comes, is brief, admirably non gory and rather dull, chiefly because Hancock has neither the filmmaking brio it takes to l .. La Weekly
3.0
The filmmakers seem to have been working out of over reverence to legend to create more than distant shapes of the people and the sacrifices involved. Varia Gate
3.8
When youre dealing with a thirteen day siege, you need something to hold an audiences attention. Three Movie Buffs
3.8
This is the best Alamo movie ever the most accurate, the best acted, the most sumptuously mounted. Kansas City
1.0
Now, any retelling of what happened way back in 1836 in San Antonio is going to be problematical. Killer Movie Reviews
2.5
By creating the only character of depth in an underdeveloped epic, Thornton is the only element of The Alamo truly worth remembering. Sltrib
1.3
Hancock goes through great pains to impose important moments on us, but he fails to give them the poignancy needed to elicit emotion. Waffle Movies
2.5
It was merely a chore to sit through this long drawn out historical film. Dennis Schwartz Reviews
2.0
Even if a realistic approach had to be taken, better to show the roots of such legends, rather than spend so much time making them ordinary. Window To The Movies
3.8
He doesnt have their respect, and hes got to try to earn it if hes going to make good. Decent Films
2.5
The iconic name is surrounded by a heady cocktail of history, legend, and flat out mythology so potent that director John Lee Hancock never settles on .. Flip Side Archive
2.5
An ambitious mix of history lesson, politically correct speculation, character sketches of American icons and pretty scenery, but it winds up without .. Freep
3.0
Like its sets of the Alamo...the movie attempts to do more than is necessary, bogging down in minutiae where traditional facades would have done just .. Movie Metropolis
2.5
I was going to say something clever here, like forget The Alamo, but then I realized that wasnt clever at all. Whoops. Still, the point stands. Film Blather
3.1
The Alamo honors the handful of men who stood up for their passion and ideals against an overwhelming force. Entertainment Spectrum
2.5
I wish I could remember The Alamo for being a great movie, but Ill have to settle for remembering when I saw it. TheMovieChicks.com
1.5
A familiar if clunky tale of courage in the face of insurmountable odds, it willfully forgoes historical accuracy or narrative believability. Nicks Chager
0.5
So much has gone wrong for The Alamo that it almost feels like piling on to say any more about it. Nitrate Online
3.2
... worth remembering, even if its never as unforgettable as the battle, and the people, who inspired it. Review Journal
1.9
Momentum seems to be a word not in Hancocks vocabulary, since The Alamo doesnt have any. The Dispatch (Lexington, N ..
2.5
The film plods along, like those Mexican soldiers, arriving at its destination in serviceable yet unmemorable fashion. Seattle Times
1.3
And the saddest thing The movie doesnt really know how to prepare us for any of it. Cinema Phile
1.0
Disneys PG 13 spectacle does a disservice to both fact and fiction with clumsy, cliche writing. Net Flix
1.9
Looks and feels like the kind of 16mm filmstrip once projected in grade school history classes, right down to the corny dialogue and hammy acting. Premiere Magazine
1.9
The equivalent of one long drone from a stiff Social Studies teacher who can scarcely be bothered to add any sort of relevance to the topic.
2.8
I do believe President Bush was actually directing this movie. It has all the hallmarks of his idea of history, pretending that enemies are villainous .. Apollo Guide
3.5
Disneys latest epic is a solid, entertaining film even if it adds nothing all that interesting to the legend of the Alamo. Edge Boston
3.2
it hits enough true notes to elevate it above the usual patriotic flag waving renditions Old School Reviews
2.5
This bloated bore of a film has the audacity to call itself an epic Fancy costumes and a barrage of actors in American iconic roles does not a masterp .. Blunt Review
2.5
The film may succeed as a simplistic introduction to a complex event in American history. But some of it is just depressingly lame. Boston Herald
1.5
The result is something that feels very much like an overachieving made for TV movie a history lesson dolled up like an action movie, with the action .. Dallas Observer
2.5
The way filmmaker Hancock addresses the material, one half expects Travis, Bowie, Crockett and the rest of the defenders to rise from their graves aft .. Lawrence Journal-World
2.5
I can see Disney execs many years from now, in a cry to make better films, yelling Remember The Alamo!
4.0
Meets the challenge of telling a tale with a known unhappy ending and keeping dramatic tension; narratively, youll wish you had the seven pound 8th gr .. Cinerina
2.2
The Alamo finds you leaving the theater not debating whether or not the movie was historically accurate, but wondering what exactly was the point of m .. Romantic Movies About
2.5
The movie is good as a historical tool but as entertainment it is only average. Jackiek Cooper
2.2
As exciting as a big, flat cyclorama exhibit at your local historical society.
3.8
Director and writer John Lee Hancock avoids most of the bombast and showy display of the 1960 John Wayne film. The San Diego Union Tribun ..
2.0
It wavers between traditional period adventure, cynical, revisionist history and meandering, multi character mini series. The action scenes arent very ..
2.5
Thorntons performance as a slightly itchy Davy Crockett saves it from being a complete and total bomb.



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