The Duke produced a glorious cinematic reminder of a crucial part of American history.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2023

The film is sometimes too gabby and too sentimental but is magnificent to look at, and the inexorable climax is awesome in its scope and fury.

| Nov 5, 2019

All the pontificating about the joys of freedom becomes irritating, but James Edward Grant's dialogue occasionally crackles with enough humorous wit to hold an audience untill the gripping finale.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 31, 2012

Interminable.

| Jan 31, 2012

In spite of the painstaking attempts to explore the characters of the picture's three principal heroes (Bowie, Crockett, Travis), there is an absence of emotional feeling, of a sense of participation.

| Mar 26, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2008

Despite a banal and preachy script, full of speeches about religion and patriotism,the film has some good action sequences; overall, it's not worse than the 2004 remake starring Billy Bob Thornton.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 23, 2007

An elephantine, historically inaccurate, stridently patriotic tribute to the handful of Texans who faced assault by 7,000 Mexican baddies.

Full Review | Feb 9, 2006

Patriotic but inaccurate epic Western.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 3, 2005

As his own producer and director, Mr. Wayne has unfortunately let his desire to make a "big" picture burden him with dialogue. His action scenes are usually vivid, his talk scenes are long and usually dull.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 12, 2004

Duke does Alamo redux. Heroic, overblown, speechy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2004

John Wayne doesn't appear for the first twenty minutes of The Alamo, his 1960 directorial debut, and that's a bad sign.

| Apr 19, 2004

Wildly overwrought, clumsy, and embarassingly directed.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 18, 2004

Could Wayne have crafted a better film if he only tried his hand at directing, instead of putting on the hero's mantle as well? Doubtful.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 1, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 23, 2004

There's a lot of talky drama and it takes more than two hours before you get to the fighting, but it remains an American epic.

| Jul 8, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 15, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 68/100 | Mar 7, 2001