The time in this movie was not used well...

Rating: Null/10 (26 April 2005)

I muse say I did enjoy the movie and there were a lot of very poignant moments in it as well as depictions of great heroism I thought. I won't go into the detailed movie minutiae as many have before me but i must say that the use of movie time was extremely poor. I knew Marc Blucas was in the movie and I knew he was playing Jon Bonham, one of the central figures of the Alamo story and one of the most heroic (even in New York schools we learned about him). I then spent the entire movie waiting for Bonham's ride. I caught Blucas behind an actor in one scene and writing a last letter home in another. Um - what? I then find out that they did film Bonham's rid and obviously other footage to support this but it was cut out so that we could see a lot of grand sweeping shots of the Alamo at dawn, at noon, at dusk, at night... Oh! We also got to see Santa Ana molesting some woman and twenty-minutes post-Alamo of Sam Huston. I have read that the director plans to release a Direcor's cut DVD with this footage restored and I hope he does. But when a big part of your hype about a movie is the historical accuracy and you leave out a huge chink of that history and disrespect an extremely heroic act (Bonham did not have to be at the Alamo at all, he chose to go there and bring troops with him to support his friend, even knowing that he would more than likely die)in order to have your obligatory 'powerful man sex scene' left in, well...