Not worth your time

Rating: 2/10 (25 December 2004)

Alexander was, quite frankly, one of the worst movies I have watched in my life. Mr Stone tried to make this film into some kind of masterpiece, having everything from romance to adventures, action and philosophy, picturesque sceneries and meaning, but he achieved none of it. The film goes on for over three hours without a plot, in fact without much action. You see quite a few lengthy, disorderly fighting scenes, without any hint of relevance, sometimes absolutely nothing is happening and you have a narrator tell you a story like in a really badly made documentary, in other scenes you have some sort of artistic slow motion which makes the film look like some kind of advertisement. Some of the dialogues will be long remembered, sadly for being absurdly nonsensical (did anyone read the script? Anyone?). Relationships were apparently very important in Alexander's life, notably those to his father, his mother and his closest friends, or servants, but his mother and his homosexual inclinations are given a lot of time, with absolutely nothing to show for it. The ridiculously misplaced and overlong back flash towards the end of the film actually made me quite aggressive. I am left wondering what became of Oliver Stone, whom I admired so much for his early films.