2 years in Editing Cannot Save Awful Movie

Rating: 1/10 (9 April 2004)

Many people are not aware that The Alamo was originally scheduled to open over 2 years ago, and that trailers were running in theaters before the film was pulled to re-edit it. Test audiences did not like the movie. Cut to one year later, last fall, The Alamo was again scheduled for release, trailers began showing up in theaters, and the movie was again pulled for re-editing and touch ups. Now the movie is finally out and we can see for ourselves what the hooplah was all about. It doesn't take long to realize that if this is the best they can do after 2+ years of editing, this movie should have been scrapped completely. It is a painfully boring movie, with not one saving performance. The final battle scene is generic, almost recycled. We have seen this in hundreds of movies before. There is nothing new, there is no reason to care for the characters, despite the hour and half of character development before any action actually starts. And the movie studio should be sued for false advertising. Dennis Quaid is being billed as one of the main actors in this film, but he appears only briefly at the beginning and again at the end. He is barely in the film at all. It is a boring movie, not even worth a rent after it leaves theaters in a week. It may well rank up there with Heaven's Gate as one of the long-waited disasters in film history.