Realistic to a fault

Rating: 5/10 (11 December 2004)

Alexander's non-sexual love of his boyhood friend is accurate for the time and culture of the age.
The FACTS ARE:
War elephants WERE killed in battle. War is ugly IN GENERAL. Cattle are slaughtered even today and horses have been killed in almost every war ever fought.
The problem is: THIS IS A MOVIE that should have been MADE TO ENTERTAIN not to educate in a documentary style.
Judicious editing to a length of TWO HOURS would work wonders.
The best way to watch this movie: EVERY TIME you get bored, go out and get popcorn, candy, a drink, a smoke, and then come back in. Three or four trips and the movie becomes interesting. Don't worry. While you're gone nothing monumental will happen.