Best Alamo movie ever made!

Rating: 10/10 (24 December 2004)

As a student of Texas history, I can tell you that there are few areas in which this version steps wrong. Great care was taken to get as many details right as possible. If you want to know what happened with these events, watch this version...DO NOT watch the 1960 John Wayne film!!! Just about the only thing that version got right was having the Alamo located in Texas...other than that, Wayne's version was a total work of fiction. It seems the 2004 version at least made an effort to talk to historians. Now another reviewer here complained this one seemed to much like a History Channel documentary...I wonder if that guy has even been to Texas? I'm from there, and the locals are fiercely protective of this period. They want to see it done right. This one does it right. On top of that, it has some very imaginative shots, like the "you are the cannonball" scene (you see the cannonball get fired from a cannon and fly towards its target as though YOU were stuffed into--and fired from--the barrel yourself). The performances were great all around, but mostly, I'm just grateful they got the details right.