Maybe not greatest, but a very good movie.

Rating: 9/10 (13 December 2004)

(First of all, I am sorry for my English)
I think that this movie is quite underestimated..
I think that Oliver Stone made this movie not as an epic fresco of Alexander's life day by day. For me, the point of this film was stated early in the beginning: greatness always comes along with a failure. And he succeeded in this task of showing a tragedy of a man that was called great and which came to the failure of his greatness.
Fortunately, I could abstract really important (for me) points of this movie from Alexander being gay etc., what was the main topic on various forums. I am asking myself: if, instead of Jared Leto and various other men, Alexander in this movie slept with women and felt deeply in love with a woman, could this bring up so many commentaries? I think not.
Battle scenes in this movie (I think) are shown with as little glamour and glory as it is in the real life, where battles are more like collective madness to me, whatever the purpose of the war is. I liked this. It is not Lord of the Rings after all. Blood is blood here.
However, I think, there are some shortcomings. Colin Farrel in some scenes is too infantile and unconvincing (all scenes with him and his mother);
Angelina Jolie, apart of being quite a witch here, is non-natural for her character to be convincing.
Overall, I think that this movie is not as great as I wanted it to be, but definitely worth second and third watch and I am going to buy DVD as soon as it is released.
9 out of 10.