3-hour...Gay....Fest...Enough said.

Rating: 6/10 (26 November 2004)

Does any one agree that this movie is a complete waste of 3 hours. Watching this was more amusing than painful. Watching Jared Leto sweet talk Colin Ferril doesn't interest me much. I almost broke out laughing out loud in the theatre more than probably 5 times watching this movie. As accurate as it may be on Alexander's life, there should have been a limit to Oliver Stone's free spirited excessive emphasis on Alexander's homosexual tendencies and more on his conquests and life, not just the homosexual aspects. I sat for 3 hours, watching Alexander's conquests be blinded by his homosexuality. And on top of that, there were only 2 battle scenes, and they both were boring to the point where I was yawning. And another question, did anyone else think that Anthony Hopkins's character was completely useless, and the cuts between Alexander's life and Anthony Hopkins's story-telling to the boyish scribe were really annoying and interfered with he movie's flow. Maybe I'm being a little over-the-top, but come on, Alexander's life is supposed to be a great epic, not a 3- hour gay soap opera.