An utter despair

Rating: 3/10 (17 December 2004)

Sadly, I went to see this movie, fully intending to poke fun at it with my fellow geek like friends. We're all history buffs and we're studying ancient Greece in our class. However, as I was watching it, I realized that it was too awful to even make fun of.
I first realized what I was getting into when they quoted Virgil in the starting sequence. A ROMAN author quoted in a Greek movie.... That was beyond irking.
Then it only got worse.
Olympias went from madly in love Philip to hating his very soul. She became manipulative over her son, and somehow, Alexander goes from a blood thirsty, vicious, natural leader, to a woman. (I'm sorry to my fellow members of the female race.... he was weaker than a woman) Not only that. They cut out most of the important battle scenes! The Crossing of the Hellespont, The siege of Tyre! And his entire stay in Egypt! Oliver Stone, in his focus on the small and controversial, focuses on Alexander's homosexual tendencies, which was normal back then! Not only normal, but it was expected! This movie continued and continued in a downward spiral as he went deep into India, somewhere he never went, and on the way married Roxane, who was actually a Bactrian princess.... No political value my.... Yah, anyway, Rosario Dawson was awful, and her breasts were so fake that I'm sure the man didn't even find her worth looking at.
On top of all these wrongs, Ptolemy alludes to the fact that Alexander's death might not have been natural. AS IF! Can we not re-write history in order to make a buck? A plan that has obviously back fired! Over all I give it a 3/10. Jared Leto looked absolutely hot in the movie...