The murky ground where legend and history meet

Rating: 8/10 (8 May 2019)

I enjoyed this movie as an earnest attempt to tell this iconic legend in a slightly different way. It's variance from the legend seems to make some reviewers here uncomfortable, but I have read a lot about the Alamo over the past 40 years and don't feel threatened by it. History, after all, is written by the winners. I think the last scene with Davy Crockett is based on a book by a Mexican soldier, but I am not 100% sure. I like the line Crockett gives about the burden of being Davy Crockett, the legendary Crockett, that is, rather than the private Crockett he is not allowed to be. It is just as well that it turned out to be such a rallying cry for houston's Army, because it doesn't feel like it accomplished much else. Well, except for providing material for an entertaining movie, that is.