Interesting until false Hollywood ending

Rating: Null/10 (16 December 2004)

As a Texan, I was thoroughly involved in this film and enjoyed it up until the battle's aftermath. For whatever reason, the director/writer/producer made a clean break from factual history and decided to have Billy Bob (Davy Crockett) become the only survivor, who then shows his grit and guts toward Santa Anna before being bayoneted to death. Perhaps at this point they worried if people were still watching, so they try to tantalize the audience by showing Davy Crockett in a chance to beg for mercy and the "goosebump-inducing" scene of defiance. Any historian or any Texan knows everyone died at the Alamo, even good IL' Davy during the battle. I've never been so disappointed with the ending of any film, and the fact that it was tossed in there for whatever idiotic reason is a slap in the face and an insult to all Texans and insults the memory of what happened in 1836.