This film tells the truth

Rating: 8/10 (27 August 2005)

As a child of ten years I have seen John Wayne's "The Alamo" for the first time. I was deeply impressed by the heroic story, and till this day as a man in the fifties, I still love this movie. Okay, I know now much more today about the real story when Texas fought for independence. For sure, the Duke's interpretation of Davy Crockett is sometimes more Cardinal Spellman as one of the king of the wild frontier. And sometimes the pathos of some scenes is intolerable. But the battle scenes are great, Richard Widmark did a fine job as Jim Bowie and the music composed by my favorite composer Dimitri Tiomkin is surpassing. In contrast to Wayne's epic John Lee Hancocks dark and melancholy picture don't want to narrate a fairy-tale for American patriots. This films tells the truth about the "13 days of glory", the historical background and the the motives and characters of the volunteers who fought in Alamo and at San Jacinto. I'm not a historian, but what I ever have read about Santa Anna, Sam Houston and all the circumstances down in Texas, from all films this one is very close to the authentic story. We see not heroes at all - what we see is an interesting, exciting, good casted, sensational photographed and well directed film about the things happened when the Lone Star State was born. I cannot understand the comments saying "The Alamo" is too long or boring or there are too much dialogs and too little action in it. Look for the admirable performance of Dennis Quaid and the outstanding Davy-Crockett-characterization of Billy Bob Thornton. "The Alamo" 1960) is a picture of the childhood, "The Alamo" (2004) one for the adulthood. Great movie, I give 8 out of 10 stars.