One of my favorite movies of all time

Rating: 10/10 (6 February 2008)

This movie is historically valid in many respects, much more so than other Alamo films. Old San Antonio was reconstructed near present day San Antonio, so the setting was about as close to the real place as you could get.The parts were very well cast, and the acting was wonderful. I'm with the other reviewer: I don't understand why this movie didn't do better at the box office. The one reason I can think of is that it focused on politics and war tactics rather than romance. Even though romance did not figure prominently in the film, for the empathetic person with some imagination, there was romance there too: James Bowie, still grieving for his deceased wife; his sister-in-law who perhaps had always secretly been in love with him; and Susanah Dickinson, a survivor of the Battle of the Alamo who watched her husband die there. Another thing I liked about the movie was that it did not end at the Alamo but followed the Texas War of Independence to its end at the Battle of San Jacinto, where General Sam Houston used hi knowledge of the strategies used by Wellington against Napoleon to defeat General Santa Ana, known as the Napoleon of the West.