A HUGE & Flawed movie

Rating: 2/10 (10 February 2005)

This movie was supposedly going to be one of the major Oscar hopefuls with a *supposedly* good cast. The first thing wrong with this movie was the casting. Colin Farell as Alexander, it just doesn't really click, or at least likely able to associate this actor with the Macedonian ruler. The blond hair was looked fake, poorly done, and his Irish accent kept leaking through at many points during his speeches. Then there is the unbelievably HOTT Angelina Jolie who is good, (in other movies) but here she over did it and she's like a year older than Colin Farrel! How can she really play his mother? When they had an intimate mother-son moment, it looked like they were going do it! And using the very accomplished Anthony Hopkins was a good idea, but we do not need to hear him talking throughout the entire movie! The movie moved unbearably slow, and instead of showing the audience Alexander's great accomplishments, it is told like a school lecture. Not a good way to keep the audience enthralled and excited. The fight scenes were horrendous, I could not figure out where everyone else was because of all the close up shots on their feet and faces. And during those fight scenes I did not get the indication of Alexnader's presence as a great warrior. Every time he went up to kill the main guy, he MISSED! And there were only TWO battle scenes! The dialog was like a cheesy, pompous, ripoff of Shakespere. Not a great film. Oliver Stone should look at his earlier work like Platoon (one of my favorites) and examine why it is still such a good movie and learn from the other good and memorable epic films.