Another "Great' unable to climb out of the dung heap.

Rating: 1/10 (16 July 2007)

The title "Alexander the Great" was changed to "Alexander".
I understand completely. Apparently no one has even come close to living up to the full name since it's original owner, and Stone was at least smart enough to know that. How diabolically sad though, so I should likely explain why I rated this movie as I did. There are no spoilers, as nothing could spoil it any more than it is.
I am an extreme Alexander enthusiast, half of my bookshelves are filled with Alexander the Great, anything the least bit connected to him, no matter how motley, I regard with a level of Ahhh!, paying outlandish prices for even drivel about him. I was certainly not expecting a detailed historically accurate, roaring documentary and was more that ready to completely embrace any historical blasphemy.
This was worse than blasphemy, I saw it when it came out and was so utterly and completely demoralized that only now, in the middle of 2007 can I face this and think about the movie again. Please also understand that Angelina Jolie and Val Kilmer can do no wrong. Yet I can’t remember, nor wish to remember almost anything about this movie. It is more than a bitter pill, as it also put the kibosh on Scorsese "Alexander" project with Leonardo DiCaprio, not that I had high hopes for that either.
Apparently the second greatest man to ever walk the earth must wait longer yet for someone great enough to tell his story. I was hoping with three directors competing, one of them may provide at least a smidgen of it's own history. Regretfully now it will not likely be in my lifetime. I'm so disappointed I'd give it a "ZERO" if I could and most of the evaluation comments made here were a waste of time, positive or negative. I wouldn't dignify the movie.