Alexander the Pathetic

Rating: Null/10 (1 December 2004)

Alexander is truly the most God awful excuse of a movie I have ever seen. Badly cast; horribly, horribly, horribly written; Hacklike direction (or lack of direction), as the film promised to go in about twenty different directions, but accomplished none of them. What is especially infuriating is that critiques of this lame, irrelevant, viewer abusive catastrophe are labled as homophobes. Stone's attempt to present as the misunderstood artist: "The film will be better received in Europe" is stunningly insulting to the intelligence. I am deeply offended that Stone took such a lofty subject and spent three hours making it into trivial video vomit. Rather than excusing himself, Stone owes the viewers an apology for wasting their time and money.