Alexander the confused, lonely and boring

Rating: 4/10 (28 October 2005)

Fact: Alexander the great set out to conquer the world, and he did. When he found out the world was bigger than he first thought, he wanted to conquer that too. His Macedonian army literally followed him to the ends of the earth and beyond.
I would not follow Colin Farrel's Alexander down the road to the pub for a couple of pints. Sure he had problems, sure he was gay....but that is not what defined him.
He was a warrior who was at the front of the charge, not a king ordering from the back.
This is where the movie fails. It misses the point. It doesn't convince you in any way that this person could have conquered the world and inspired the loyalty of his people for so long and over such treacherous terrain.
There were Greek speaking cities in India 200 years ago and in middle east his name is remembered reverentially.
Basically a waste of time. Worse yet, Oliver Stone obviously doesn't trust or understand CGI, so most of shots of war look outdated and fail to capture the real situation.