The Alamo

Doesn't work despite Thornton's top performance.

Laborious mush.

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

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

Arriving in theaters today, the resulting $100-million dollar motion picture is a flawed, sprawling examination of the Mexican-American conflict that raises far more questions than it answers.

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

Something was missing from the film. It lacked punch.

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.