The Alamo (2004)

Booooorrrrring. Billy Bob Thornton's the only thing this film has going for it. The "drama" is forced with swelling music and ridiculous sentimental touches (Bowie has a gun in each hand though weak and confined to bed…Houston sees Travis's son go by in a buckboard during one of the "retreats"...Crockett plays the fiddle in accompaniment to the Mexican Army's battle song...give me a BREAK). Just way too hokey to be taken seriously.

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