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8.7 out of 10
I'm Texan. I've been looking forward to this
movie since I saw the first preview for it. It
didn't matter that a subsidiary of Disney was
producing it. It was a new movie about the Alamo.
And what good Texan doesn't want to see a movie
about the Alamo? For those of you non-Texans,
you're probably wondering why we want to do see a
movie in which we lose.
The point of it is not that we lost. It's that we
told them to go to hell, and held out valiantly
while telling them such. We didn't surrender, and
we held them back long enough to muster an army to
defeat them. Plus it just served to further piss
us off and make us want to kick their butts all
the more. The massacre at Goliad also served the
same purpose, but they conveniently forget to
mention that in the movie.
As far as historical accuracy goes, it's fairly
good. They, of course, make up stuff and make
conjectures on what people said in the mission.
My only real genuine complaint is that they focus
a little bit too much on Davy Crockett for my
tastes. Crockett was a failing politician from
Tennessee who got stuck at the wrong place at the
wrong time.
Another amusing thing is the movie's writers or
director attempting to show "War brutal. War bad!"
in a movie about the Alamo. This is the Alamo,
people! Not a Vietnam movie. The idea that
they're trying to make a big war bad thing out of
Alamo is laughable. This is how you know that
who ever was responsible was not from Texas.
Overall it's an entertaining movie and I'd
recommend for any and everyone to go see it. And
yes, I'm Texan and I'm biased. I'm also damn proud
of it, too.
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