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Reviews Counted:151
Fresh:46
Rotten:105
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Too conventional and uninvolving to be memorable.
Theatrical Release:Apr 9, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $22,367,675
Synopsis: An epic that evokes films such as HOW THE WEST WAS WON and DANCES WITH WOLVES, THE ALAMO details the key 1863 battle fought to win Texas from the Mexican government. Originally constructed as a... [More]
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Emilio Echevarria
Director: John Lee Hancock, John Sayles
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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 underhanded methods to steal the office of the White House in 2000.
Simplistic history and pompous, jingoistic propaganda; worst of all, it lacks much in the way of excitement.
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Slowly paced, does little to make you care about the people who gave their lives during this bloody time and is, well, just boring.
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Director and writer John Lee Hancock avoids most of the bombast and showy display of the 1960 John Wayne film.
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The filmmakers have obviously decided to use as their model those educational films. . .that are inflicted on soon to be history-hating students at the middle school level
Thornton’s Crockett provides most of the entertainment value hidden in this haystack of historical boredom.
slips from the mind so quickly it might as well be about the rental car agency, and not the famous Texas battle.
Thornton's performance as a slightly itchy Davy Crockett saves it from being a complete and total bomb.
Not even good sets, plenty of historical detail, and Billy Bob Thornton can put life into director John Lee Hancock's slow-moving, poorly acted Texan saga.
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A stilted, unemotional affair.
Top CriticHaving undergone a long and presumably tortuous editing process, the new Alamo, in the end, feels thinned out.
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