Stone took the wrong path

Rating: Null/10 (7 August 2005)

You know you've got a stinker of a movie when they won't even release the theatrical cut on DVD... I skipped paying $10 at the theater to see it, so all I have to go on is the "new and improved" version on the DVD... After watching it, and the commentary track version as well, the core problem seems to be that the story of Alexander just isn't well suited to the format of a a 2 and half hour movie... There's just too much story.
The only way you could make a good movie about Alexander IMO is to do something similar to Amadeus, and make the lead character an observer of Alexander, that way you can skip the boring parts and focus on one aspect... For instance, Amadeus focused on the "genius" aspect, with a subplot around the Father...
But with Stone's Alexander, we get too much... There's the whole Father thing, the whole Mother thing, and then there's a series of battles that takes him all the way to India... In the end, its just WAY too much.