Oliver Stone should have stopped while he was ahead.

Rating: 4/10 (23 February 2005)

This movie was ridiculous. There was so much talent on that screen, and they were acting their hearts out, but for what. A blown out of proportion epic that never left the ground. Stone tried too hard to make this film a "historical documentary" type as well as an epic and it just didn't fly. The movie is spastic and one can never figure out what the director is trying to say. I felt nothing for any of the character since no effort was made to make the audience empathize with them. Angelina Jolie was a stand out amongst this droll film though, pretty convincingly playing Alexander's jealous and conniving mother. Anthony Hopkins as "narrator" was odd and felt disjointed with the rest of the movie. It would have felt more natural if they just let the movie tell its self instead of making it like a "story book" film, I just don't feel that it was that type of story.