SUBMITTED BY Scooby

July 19, 2002 — IGN Filmforce reviewed the script for The Alamo and gave it a positive review. Here's a clip:

This story is about The Alamo. The siege and the battle aren't short-changed. The first and last half-hours are just spent outside of the Alamo for a very good reason. As a native Texan, Knowles admits that he grew up hearing stories of the Texas Revolution over and over. Well, the rest of us haven't so we need those non-Alamo scenes in order to understand what led to that battle, to see why these guys went there and why we should care about their sacrifice. It would be boring, frankly, to just do another film set entirely inside the Alamo. It's been done already. What new ground is there to cover then?