intentionally trashy?

Rating: 2/10 (25 December 2004)

Although a bona fide European, I really disliked this movie. It gets a 2 rather than a 1 for a few good features, such as some of the battle scenes, which were needlessly gory but otherwise very good. They compare well to those from "Troy", which was an unmitigated disaster but not as bad as Alexander. The entire thing seems like a trash movie, with no acting involved, or even attempted. Is anyone able to listen to someone in 2004 to the pep talks of Alexander to his troops without wanting to throw up ("Ride, my brave Macedons, ride!")? All seemed like amateur theater. And in the end, the movie was expensive, but not expensive enough. The oedipal touch was just embarrassingly superficial and wholly unbelievable; the homo-erotic and heterosexual touches just funny. Three hours wasted.