I would rather gouge out my own eye

Rating: 2/10 (19 November 2004)

This movie was awful from start to finish. Anthony Hopkins opened the movie
with a long drawn out scene that only plunged further into the horribly written/ directed movie. This is not what I would have expected from the man that
produced Freeway and The People vs. Larry Flint. It wasn't that the script was awful, it was just delivered in an painstaking manner that made it really hard to watch.
The music was synthesized and ill-suited for the movie. The cinematography
was not spectacular. A red filter was added at the end of the movie that didn't fit in at all. Many people left the theater early and towards the end all of us were laughing at the movie during inappropriate times. By the time the credits were about to roll up the screen, all of stampeded for the door like there was a fire in the theater.
The one thing that I can give the movie credit for was costumes. I would really like to give it some credit for the intense sex scene performed by Collin Farrel and Rosario Dawson. At one point she has him by throat with a knife and in the next minute they are making passionate love, but due to the lack of character development, I didn't really care about whether or not Alexander died.
If you want to watch a really great period movie stick to Gladiator, it's thousands and thousands times better.