Eastern European or Irish?

Rating: 3/10 (20 February 2005)

When I went to watch 'Alexander' I was expecting to see a really bad film. Usually when you expect to see a bad film it turns out to be quite impressive. That was not the case this time. In fact, my disappointment was far bigger than I expected it to be. I decided not to ever comment 'a film like this one' and the only reason I went to see it was because this film was supposed to represent my history and culture.
Anthony Hopkins had the worst character make up ever! I could not believe that was actually him. I think make-up artistes had quite a fun deciding how many people will have one eye missing because if you did notice; nearly every second actor did not have one. Angelina Jolie did not age in twenty years; all she got was a bit of a grey hair. Colin Farrell had a bleached blonde hair and his dark roots were extremely annoying as the real Alexander was natural blonde I believe and people did not bleach their hair in 323 B.C. I believe that black eyeliner was supposed to make him look exotic I have to admit I was very impressed by the way Persians were presented. The costumes and the interior design of the palace were beautiful. I could not stop laughing when I realised Collin Farrell was using his Irish accent. Why Angelina did not use it as well, instead she tried to sound like Eastern European but it turned out quite poor. If it's too difficult to learn how to speak Macedonian why just don't speak English. Trying to have eastern European accent is worse because people at Alexander's time did not speak English with various accents.
I was quite impressed by camera-work and lighting. The best work in this film did the sound designers and the storyboard artists.