Awful, absolutely dreadful!!!!

Rating: 1/10 (21 January 2010)

I will first give a "Spoiler Alert". Not because I'll really tell you anything specific about the movie's events, but because I'm going to summarize this heaping pile of dung.
First off, I'm someone who really finds the historical character Alexander the Great to be one of the most amazing figures ever. I don't think he was really a good guy at all, but he had many honorable qualities and was one of the best war strategists ever. He was so important to our world that it's believed that he was prophesied in the Bible. He helped shape our world as we know it. To this day people study his war strategies. His life's relation to the King of Persia is one of the greatest historical stories ever.
With that, how on Earth can you make an awful movie from Alexander's great legacy? Don't worry, Oliver Stone stepped up to the plate. Oliver Stone made a 2+ hour movie that mainly showed Alexander being a whiney little brat spending all his time in drunken orgies. It's like the whole movie is about Alexander's sexuality and not his life achievements. To show my point, the King of Persia is dead minutes after the movie starts. Oliver Stone totally blew that chance to add irony, symbolism, and suspense to this movie.
The only actor who came close to fitting his or her character was Angelina Jolie. Colin Farrel was an awful "Alexander", resembling more of a sexually frustrated and confused surfer dude. Rosario Dawson's appearance was pointless, unless you just wanted to see her nude. Val Kilmer was one of the worst choices you could have to play Alexander's father. Jared Leto had no business being in this movie. Might as well put Jessica Simpson in this movie while you're at it.
To put this movie into perspective, imagine Oliver Stone doing a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. If he followed this model, King's speech would be 15 minutes into the movie, he would be played by Eminem, and the rest of the movie would deal with his affairs that he allegedly had. It would miss the point completely, which this movie did.
If you like movies and history, do yourself a favor and skip this movie. This was one of the worst movies I've ever seen and it re-affirms my belief that Oliver Stone needs to retire.