The best movie i've seen in the year!

Rating: 9/10 (16 January 2005)

This movie is excellent! The cinematography and photography is remarkable... i liked the angles of the shots: those long shots with all the army before they struggle into battle is beautiful; also to see the perspective and all those elements framed. It has a great gay content: many conversations of Alexander with Hephaistion are really close... they almost kiss! Instead they hug each other... But you can see the love and caring each one had for each other, the loyalty of Hephaistion for Alexander and the trust the later had for Hephaistion: He saved Alex from his doom. If you don't like gay or bisexual content, these scenes were lightened up (i guess) to ensure general public's sensitivity don't gets hurt. It's a great movie.. worth seen besides of this.
The customs, locations, soundtrack and movie titles... are excellent. They really did research on the outfits, because all the encounters with non-Macedonians tribes... are dressed the way it should have been: the Babylonians are dressed with those beautiful dresses and beard.. the same you see on the Babylonian statues. It's impressive they're reconstruction of Babylon! I heard it's walls were covered with lapis lazuli, but watching the recreation of it... it's amazing!
All those landscapes were beautiful... it was like a 3 hour trip in a movie... from Macedonia, Egypt to India... Very nice...
The soundtrack is very nice also, since you here those classic compositions of great movies with its overtures and the "classic" women voice in Gladiot's style, but this time with an Asian edge.
Movie titles are excellent, since it displays all the symbols used in the movie, in a short sequence... Statues, eagles and ancient writing... with a nice blue light layered with slow fades between images and a liquid effect. Also, what i liked mostly was the use of Alexander's name in all those different languages spoken at the time: Fenician, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Greek and Babylonian, to mention a few.
The performance of Colin Farrel is OK, the same of Angelina's and Jared's...
Hope you see the movie and like it...