I wonder why aren't there other movies with this plot. Made by Europeans?

Rating: 5/10 (1 March 2005)

If I admit that watching Bob Sponge Squarepants left me more satisfied than seeing this film, a certain injustice still remains. Could it be because of Alexander's lack of simplicity in resolving the film in the Hollywood way? Would it be unfair because Alexander the Great is more important than Bob Sponge Squarepants? However, the king of Persia resembled a lot to Bin Laden...
I forgive Stone for keeping me sitting down during three hours and without an intermezzo, thanks to the excellent descriptions of the battles of those days. How hard it would have been to be standing on foot in front of thousands of sharpened 'pillums' . And to be continuously pushed forward to keep on charging against that type of enemy.
But there is no description about the source of Alexander the Great's strategy, that was not coming from his guts, but from his master, Aristotle's (one of the world greatest philosophers of all times), lessons of Physics and Geography (in this order).
But the film prefers to picture the genes that he inherited and rarely justifies Alexander's crusades, as the character himself recognizes several times.
If I would like to describe Alexander's psychology, instead of describing his mother so insistently, it would be wise to describe the fearful environment that might have ruled over Greece at those days because of the Persians.
And to understand that Alexander and his men were not moved by megalomania or a boyscout spirit when they invaded, conquered and defied fear, it would only be required to know a little about Greece and their myths like the incursions to unknown lands of the Argonauts and their search for the Golden Fleece (a sort of trophy like the Holly Grial) story as an incentive for the young seeking for adventures.
I don't know much about history, but I suppose, that most of Alexander's warrior spirit is also owed to Aristotle's, his former tutor, lessons. Since philosophers' thinking dynamics are similar to invasions: they risk into the unknown, they keep on overlapping and extending their fighting surface (or information) and finally they assimilate it all. That might be why, Alexander used to respect all the conquered religions, and associated with the conquered regents. Because his confidence was in his ideas, and not in the weapons used. This part of history might have done a classic movie in other circumstances, what a shame.