slips from the mind so quickly it might as well be about the rental car agency, and not the famous Texas battle.
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04/08/04
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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 is a well made and nostalgic film with big sweeping scenes, red sunsets and grandiose battle shots.
04/08/04
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.
04/08/04
Remember The Alamo? It’s about as memorable as a sunny springtime Saturday wasted at the DMV.
04/08/04
A torturous cycle of standing, pouting, bickering and looking at the Mexican army, as irritatingly flat as the pages of the history books that taught us about the Alamo.
04/08/04
A respectable and at times an exciting film that should appeal to males of all ages, history buffs and -- yes, it's inevitable -- patriots.
04/08/04
Top CriticDisney’s latest epic is a solid, entertaining film – even if it adds nothing all that interesting to the legend of the Alamo.
04/08/04
A big, sprawling movie with remarkably little grandeur; what's worse, it's emotionally hollow...with cardboard characterizations and wooden dialogue.
04/07/04
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.
04/07/04
Top CriticHancock goes through great pains to impose important moments on us, but he fails to give them the poignancy needed to elicit emotion.
04/07/04
The Alamo is further, sobering proof that every dog(gerel) has its day and every generation gets the movie it deserves.
04/07/04
A few dollars lighter, a few hours closer to death, get a chance to glimpse your own mortality reflected in the dead, shark-eyed glare of another big-budget prestige picture.
04/07/04
Cartoonishly awful! Remember the Alamo but forget this movie.
04/06/04
It'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
In trying to give human dimension to one of the legendary events of American history, the creators of The Alamo succeed only in making it dull.
04/06/04
Emotionally inert and poorly paced, The Alamo transforms one of Texas' best-known events into an uninvolving bore.
04/06/04
Top CriticForget it.
04/02/04
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
03/31/04
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