Epic

Rating: 8/10 (2 February 2005)

I found Alexander too long and tedious in the last 20 minutes, and at times during the movie I found myself wanting events to move along. Flawed the movie is, but all praise to Oliver Stone. What an epic. What color, what grandeur, what battle scenes and what a subject. Thank god we still have movie directors like Stone, prepared to tackle a historical subject in an honest way and with some gusto. Sure everything did not come off perfectly, but (and to quote other sources) even the flawed parts are superior to many of the movies tramped out of Hollywood. To all those concerned about the homosexual inferences, get a life. The biggest disservice of all has been dealt by all those IMDb voters who have dragged down the total average vote of this movie (at the time of writing) to that below Arthur (2004) and that movie was absolute rubbish, with no heart, no soul and no passion. Keep voting like this folks and movie companies will stop backing epics and stay with mainstream popcorn flicks and we'll all be worse off.