Best portrayal yet.

Rating: 9/10 (12 April 2004)

For all the scoundrels & reasons for the Texan revolution, the Alamo was the price paid by them all & for it all. Alamo IS the most accurate (historically) film made to date. It showed all the warts of the founders of Texas & leading defenders of the Alamo, as well as the ultimate result, the massacre of those inside and the ruthlessness of Santa Anna. Billy Bob Thornton played Crockett to a "T", he showed all the range of the man that ultimately had to live up to his own legend. Most Texans will be disappointed in the land, power-hungry, drunken Sam Houston (Dennis Quaid), but he's there warts & all. I think it had been better if Ron Howard had been the director, but Disney wouldn't let him do his way, and John Lee Hancock did well, just not excellent. I'm Texan, born & raised, and this ain't no John Wayne movie, but for everything they took out to make it historically accurate, the things they put in made it a better and more passionate movie. All Texans that watch will get that hitch in their hearts and maybe more non-Texans will appreciate where our pride comes from.