A Good Film

Rating: 6/10 (21 September 2016)

I liked this movie and could criticize it until tomorrow, but since I lack the time I want to put one positive and one negative thing out there:
1) Watching this with a lot of knowledge on Alexander's history it makes me wonder why the producers chose a guy who looks nothing, and I mean nothing, like the true Alexander did.
Firstly, it is a common misconception that he was blond when in fact he was actually dark featured, with dark brown hair. The actor doesn't have any phenotypes of a Greek man either (the aquiline straight nose is missing, he looks entirely British) which kinda ruins the vibe of connecting the actor to the character Alexander fully.
I could say this for the rest of the characters as well but they are not as important as the casting of the main character, which should've been much much better researched considering the amount of money spent on this movie. There must be a million Greeks who could've played the part way better suited.
2) I liked how they included the possibility of his death being by poison because historians actually still debate this till today.
The directors also showed his progressive ideas quite well which was also very nice to see in a non-documentary like movie.
Other than that it was a long and overall good movie that represented him quite well and was nice to watch. I might be missing some stuff but I really can't type too long so I'll leave you with that :).