Bushy

Rating: 6/10 (27 January 2005)

Well, it was historically more accurate than Troy, King Arthur and the like, the story itself was fairly okay, that is if you do not really know anything except the name. Even the part about Alexander and Hepheistos being lovers. (Even though this fact is a controversy among historians, and some accuse him of being not only bi, but rather a pedophile.) The movie itself was enjoyable, no doubt, and the acting was fairly decent. I liked the battle scenes, as they were more accurate than in other movies. The average life span of a foot soldier (even into the late middle ages) in battle was about 10 minutes.
Now let's get to the fishy part: have you noticed all this wild talk about "liberating" Persia? At it's peak, Alexander is in Babylon, mumbling about his father who could not bring that kind of freedom to the middle-east and so forth. Man, if I would not know it better, it would be as if the movie was about George W. Bush and his father, who failed in 91 with his little crusade in Iraq. If the movie is a mirror of today's political situation, it is really accurate. Look at it! You have a nation (Macedon) which conquers large parts of the known world, "liberating" the people from the oppression of its former rulers. Then Alexander gave the rule back to the people who lived there (in modern words having them elect their own leaders) and pacifies the lands from the Mediteranian to Inda. That sounds fairly familiar, does it not?
The more I think about it, the more I dislike the message in the movie.