Perhaps The Worst Historical Re-Enactment Ever

Rating: 1/10 (6 April 2009)

Historical re-enactment movies are usually worth watching if for no other reason than the fact that the events they're re-enacting are always interesting. You wouldn't make a movie about something that wasn't interesting. But The Alamo fails entirely. From moment one it failed to engage me. It's long winded, often without need, and it includes precious little action or excitement. I realize, of course, that the point here may well have been not so much the battle as the attempt to capture the spirit of the drive for Texan independence, and the desire to be freed from the oppressive Mexican regime, but still, it has to include something interesting. Even the battle scenes seem rushed and less than authentic. A major, major disappointment. 1/10