It is an excellent movie.

Rating: 10/10 (14 April 2004)

Never have I seen so many critics duped by advance buzz or ulterior considerations (like politics or Eisner-related emotions).
This was an excellent movie.
Thornton, Patric and Wilson provide perceptive, subtle and realistic character studies of the three central figures of the Texian defense of the Alamo. Thornton's "David Crockett" allows views to learn and like the historical figure, not the overblown and caricatured hero of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Apparently, many critics prefer hyped-up fantasy and action films rather than a serious effort to probe history. USA Today spoke for them with a silly "too true to be good" headline.
The tragedy is not that the film is bad; the tragedy is that too many critics and too many movie-goers don't care about our nation's history and crave mindless escapism.