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04/13/04
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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
The Alamo isn't so much Hollywood cheese as it is a big bowl of weak queso that could've used a couple handfuls of jalapeņos.
04/13/04
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.
04/13/04
It's a big fat studio production (the set is the largest built by Hollywood in modern times) that infuses old fashioned epic tradition with contemporary sensibility and convincing, cutting edge CGIs.
04/13/04
The rare Hollywood epic which prefers to offer facts rather than flag-waving. An excellent movie.
04/13/04
The Alamo honors the handful of men who stood up for their passion and ideals against an overwhelming force.
04/12/04
It wasn't as boring as I thought it'd be.
04/12/04
Meets the challenge of telling a tale with a known unhappy ending and keeping dramatic tension; narratively, you'll wish you had the seven pound 8th grade Texas History book.
04/12/04
'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
Thanks to the skills of director and co-screenwriter John Lee Hancock and a deep cast of reliable veterans, this is an authentic and rousing version of the most famous battle in Texas history.
04/12/04
Top CriticThornton's performance as a slightly itchy Davy Crockett saves it from being a complete and total bomb.
04/12/04
I can see Disney execs many years from now, in a cry to make better films, yelling Remember The Alamo!
04/12/04
As exciting as a big, flat cyclorama exhibit at your local historical society.
04/11/04
Forget The Alamo, that is this tedious movie and not the historical event!
04/11/04
...the movie is curiously flat, void of any emotional context.
04/11/04
The film lacks the emotional, doomed punch for which it's so clearly striving.
04/11/04
fine production values and an Oscar nomination worthy performance from Billy Bob Thornton make The Alamo worthwhile
04/11/04
Truth be told, for most of its running time The Alamo plays like a vague, badly written history lesson aimed at grade schoolers.
04/10/04
Absorbing yet ever-so-slightly jaundiced retelling.
04/09/04
Top CriticWith the notable exception of Thornton's Crockett, none of these characters engages you.
04/09/04
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