You Will Fail To Remember The Film

Rating: 5/10 (26 October 2005)

The Alamo was truly filled with great people, and this film is their story. The story of American hero's and the Mexicans who slaughtered them. This is a great story, but the film is far from great, in fact it only has one thing keeping it from being horrible, that is Billy Bob Thornton. The story is one of the most inspiring ever to be filmed, to bad they had to ruin it. The screenplay is horrible, it is filled with wooden dialogue, and character clinches. In fact the only character development anyone gets is the sight of their child, or them saying they love them in a letter. The acting is wooden all around except for Billy Bob Thorntons amazing and touching performance as David Crocket, he almost makes the film worth watching. The direction is amazingly bad, everything is labored and shot all wrong, in fact I would advise for any would be film director to watch this for what not to do. The visual effects work, but are not awe inspiring. A labored and generally boring picture. Watch only for Thorntons performance.