skipped all the good stuff

Rating: 1/10 (28 November 2004)

The "love" scenes overshadowed the battles and history of the storyline. "And, with one thing and another, Alexander conquered the known world;" slip in one little battle scene, and waste the next two hours with a controversial sex movie. Hey, Oliver Stone wants to make a pro-gay movie, fine: just market it as such, and don't label it an action epic. I was robbed of $10 due to false advertising.
That said, it must be mentioned that there were no redeeming qualities in this film. The CGI was messy, the acting was of high-school stage-production quality, and frankly, I was disgusted, even by the "straight" scene of Alexander and his wife on their wedding night. (Come on, people, call it by its name: porn!)
(Braveheart included a honeymoon scene and a homosexual relationship in a much more tasteful presentation, with appropriate balance in relation to the storyline.)