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The Alamo (2004)
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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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Reviews for The Alamo
While the battle scenes Hancock conducts are symphonic in their concussive confusion and chaos, it's in the characterization that the film achieves some gravitas.
04/08/04
Top CriticA well-crafted, intelligent, no-nonsense western epic that zips us through the famous siege and the birth of Texas with style, verve and impressive historical accuracy.
04/08/04
A heartfelt yet strangely uninvolving account of the mythic Texas battle.
04/09/04
'The Alamo' is forgettable, with the exception of Billy Bob Thornton's performance as a Davy Crockett who deserves a movie of his own...
04/12/04
While it's not John Wayne caliber, it'll satisfy anyone looking for a sugar-coated history lesson.
04/08/04
Remembering this Alamo is a lot easier with the fiddle in the capable hands of Billy Bob.
06/29/04
Emotionally inert and poorly paced, The Alamo transforms one of Texas' best-known events into an uninvolving bore.
04/06/04
Top CriticAlamo buffs will be delighted, and everyone else will be treated to something that feels like Old Hollywood crossed with new sensibilities.
04/09/04
Top CriticIt's a movie more concerned with details like Jim Bowie's terminal case of consumption than it is with the historical context of its story and its legendary characters.
04/06/04
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 masterpiece make. Read on->
04/09/04
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.
08/31/06
There are great moments, though it's ultimately a lightweight film and certainly not an Oscar contender.
09/01/06
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.
04/08/04
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.
04/19/04
A long drawn-out affair that spends so much time with the living legends Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett that it could be an early Wild West "Entertainment Tonight."
04/08/04
A deeply compromised film, if not a broken one.
04/09/04
Top CriticThis is the best Alamo movie ever -- the most accurate, the best-acted, the most sumptuously mounted.
04/09/04
Plays like your standard-issue modern war movie.
04/08/04
Top CriticThe 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
03/31/04
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