A big, lumbering, unwieldy epic that creaks and groans from speech to battle.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 5, 2019

Something was missing from the film. It lacked punch.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 4, 2015

Full Review | Original Score: C | Oct 3, 2012

Doesn't work despite Thornton's top performance.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2010

This dog of a movie confirms that in 1836 Texas was stolen from Mexico by a bunch of opportunistic bastards whose descendants went on to use similarly underhanded methods to steal the office of the White House in 2000.

| Original Score: D+ | May 5, 2009

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 29, 2008

There are great moments, though it's ultimately a lightweight film and certainly not an Oscar contender.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2006

Not even good sets, plenty of historical detail, and Billy Bob Thornton can put life into director John Lee Hancock's slow-moving, poorly acted Texan saga.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 31, 2006

Com exceo das performances de Thornton e Quaid, o filme traz caracterizaes estereotipadas e freqentemente se entrega ao sentimentalismo barato.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 7, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Laborious mush.

| May 3, 2005

But is this 'Alamo' the definitive version? No, this is no History Channel presentation.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 15, 2004

| Original Score: 2/10 | Oct 7, 2004

Like its sets of the Alamo...the movie attempts to do more than is necessary, bogging down in minutiae where traditional facades would have done just as well.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 5, 2004

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2004

In spite of two great performances, this is a muddled affair.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 4, 2004

Sluggish, talky and unfocused, its downbeat revisionism robbing its historical figures of the iconic status that would have made their story worth retelling.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2004

Remembering this Alamo is a lot easier with the fiddle in the capable hands of Billy Bob.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 29, 2004

This film is mainly for people who are interested in history, not entertainment.

| Original Score: C | May 30, 2004