What A Fiasco

Rating: Null/10 (4 December 2004)

I consider myself a movie fanatic, but someone who is very open minded that recognizes when he is seeing something that appeals to the senses; the story line, music, cinematography, costume design, acting, etc. This is one movie I was really looking forward to seeing and, despite the bad press and reviews I kept seeing I told myself, what do they know? I will be the judge of this movie when I see it myself. To my disappointment, the critics that ripped this movie apart were absolutely right. What a fiasco. Quite frankly 'Alexander' is the worst piece of film-making I have seen in a long, long time. I went to see the film with three friends and did not walk out of the theater out of courtesy to them since I was the one who invited them to see the movie. Aside from the main battle, the acting was atrocious, the dialogue even worse and too much of it. It would have been better to stage the battles he led and make the movie out of that instead (the battle sequences and stunts were great) because that was the extent of this movie's quality and it was perhaps 15 minutes' worth. I don't know what else to say other than, don't waste neither your time nor your money to go watch this movie. I will now search for the 'Alexander The Great' version made with Richard Burton because I believe that was truly a good movie.