Excellent costumes and good battle scenes

Rating: 7/10 (25 July 2006)

The costumes in this film were excellent - probably the most accurate I have seen in a film set in the ancient world. The Macedonian phalanx was very well done as well. They actually seemed to try to stay in formation during the battle rather than turning into an armed mob as in most films showing ancient battles. I was also impressed that the film correctly followed the general thrust of the historical story (though with a lot left out).
I also though that the acting was no where near as bad as the critics made out - much better than in Troy for example.
For me the main problem was trying to compress about three films worth of material into one film. This probably means that if you don't know the history very well it is hard to understand how all the episodes fit together into the overall story. It may have been better to concentrate on a shorter period rather than to cover the whole of Alexander's life.