What strange accents!

Rating: 6/10 (26 December 2004)

I went to see Alexander and - even though I had no high hopes - it managed to be a bit of a disappointment. The story line was rushing from one battle to the next with some "emotional" acts between them. There was no clear message what kind of a man Alexander was. And then the accents: Alexander's mother would have been better cast in a James Bond movie as a Russian spy and there were a lot of Irish accents around. Very strange. I would have preferred no accents or only sticking to one. The battle sequences were okay although most of the times it was not clear how the battle progresses until suddenly one side won. Even a bird's eye view could not compensate for this. The sets were fine although at some points it looked like they didn't construct windows but only painted windows (especially in the set where Alexander first saw his wife). The music was terrible. Music by Vangelis is not appropriate for this movie! It reminded me too much of Chariots of Fire. Bad choice that music. Colin Farell was not very convincing as a man that was suppose to rally a whole army to fight an overwhelming enemy. The movie may be historically accurate but I had better hopes for a movie about Alexander the Great.