could have been better

Rating: 4/10 (10 February 2008)

Being an Alamo buff for 40 years was hoping this would be a better film,parts of it I liked very much,but despite all the hype about it being historically accurate,the most accurate to date is Imaxs' "Price of Freedom",I know it seems like nit picking,but they touted it as accurate,the Alamo in the film was far too small,and the configuration was wrong,they moved the church up 80 feet,again Bowie is portrayed as an alcoholic(there is no evidence to support this),Bowie did not go to the bridge,the fact is Bowie & Neill decided to hold the Alamo,there's no evidence he had a slave at the Alamo, Hancock admitted this but "felt" that Sam was "neccesary",Juan Seguin could not speak English, Houston didn't order him to stay with him,in fact he was on his way back to the Alamo with 2 dozen of his Tejanos when it fell,Travis didn't "abandon his pregnant wife in the middle of the night",he left her with her wealthy parents,it seemed parts were missing or rushed,why they made Dickinson so old I don't know(he was actually 26),it seemed to me to be a film version of Jeff Long's awful(and inaccurate)book,a pretty good film that could have been better.