Disappointment

Rating: Null/10 (5 December 2004)

Colin Farrell is such a vibrant masculine man, as is my ideal of Alexander the Great........this movie and depiction of Alexander is not. There were parts that could have been EPIC, yet not! Oliver Stone's written characterization of Alexander was degrading. He tells a story of boy warped and brow beaten by psychotic parents. A story of what we are to believe was the greatest general and conqueror of all time, yet he depicts him as a "why can't we all get along" crybaby. Stone's Alexander was running away from an overbearing mama, and constantly being compared to his father. Why? We know nothing, historically, of his parental dynamics...so why would anyone attempt to capture so much of that on film? Why wasn't this more about what we know to be true? Alexanders sexual preferences are really unimportant, what record there is...is only innuendo. This movie should have been a cable television mini-series and I should have bought a ticket to The Incredibles instead.