I Loved It

Rating: 10/10 (4 September 2004)

I loved this movie more than any other history movie so far. Since the fourth grade I've always been interested in the Alamo and the Texan Revolution. When I heard about a brand new film based upon the battle of the Alamo I counted down the days for the first day it came out... and I made it. Oh yeah sure maybe it had some sad and unfair parts but I knew what was going to happen and who was going to die. Now, I saw "The Rookie" and I saw "The Missing" and due to my opinion John Lee Hancock was the perfect director for this film. I lost all my respect to Ron Howard since that crappy film (Though I loved a Beautiful Mind and The Grinch). Thank goodness that he didn't direct that film, for what I heard in the trivia Russell Crowe was going to play Crockett! Hell No! Leave that part to a true American acting stylist and stay with Master and Commander (no offense).
Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton was perfect to be Sam Houston. Dennis Quaid went perfect as well with Sam Houston. Though so would've Oscar-nominee Tom Berenger, no? Emilo Echevarria did seem old in that film. He looked twenty years older than the actual thirty year old Santa Anna but he still performed great. William Travis was around I think twenty three during his last days; Patrick Wilson is though thirty-one years old. But, leaving out the age he did better than Oscar-nominees Alec Baldwin and Laurence Harvey. Now as for Jim Bowie... I think Oscar-nominee Richard Widmark and James Arness did better than Jason Patric however.
Sound was better than The Two Towers, screenplay was great, music was alright, cinematography was good, costumes were normal, the film was at perfect movement speed, and the performances were beautiful. 10 out of 10. No. I'll be honest at least; 9.5 out of 10. That's fair. I hope that film becomes Oscar-nominated for at least Best Actor and Supporting Actor, Best Direct, Best Sound, Best Music, probably Best Screen writing, but mostly it should be nominated for Best Picture.
!THE ALAMO WAS ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR!