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The movie The Alamo, is the story of the fall of the mission to the Mexicans. Dennis Quaid and Billy Bob Thornton play Sam Houston and Davey Crockett. The movie is based on the thirteen days in 1836 that only about two hundred Texans held off the Mexicans army of about seven thousand before the mission fell and all were killed. At the beginning of the movie they director sets it up as a flashback. We see the outcome of the battle and then back to Sam Houston trying to "sell" Texas at a political party of some sort. Davey Crockett and a few of his men decide to go out to Texas. They get there just in time to be trapped. While the men in the Alamo are comforted by Crockett's presents, he does not seem to be the man they had all heard stories of. The Texans hold off the Mexicans for thirteen days under bombardment until the Mexicans attack during the middle of the night.
While this movie was based on a historical event, the filmmakers make the story a little more their own. The best line of the movie is when Davey Crockett, with his hands tied and about to die, comments that he thought Santa Anna would be taller. I enjoyed the movie but I thought it could have been done a little better.