History has its faults

Rating: 7/10 (10 March 2005)

When I heard this movie was being released, I was very excited. I am a history student and I find Alexander the Great very fascinating. When my friend and I finally saw the movie, we were very disappointed. It seemed to me that Oliver Stone tried so hard to recapture his old glory from films such as; Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, and Natural Born Killers, he seemed to have forgotten what makes a good movie.
He focused on historical events, which I think was a plus, I admired that very much, but Stone ignored almost everything that made him a great director. Stone tried so hard to win awards with this film that he didn't realize that people were getting bored. The movie was to long, Colin Farrell over acted the role to extremes, and Stone incorporated facts concerning Alexander's homosexuality.
However, experts cannot prove that Alexander was homosexual, all rumors of his sexuality surfaced several hundred years after he died. This was a way for anti-Macedonian and anti-Alexander patriots in the conquered provinces to discredit their Greek overlords. Therefore, although it is possible Alexander was homosexual, there is no surviving evidence from the time period he lived in that would suggest otherwise.