whimpering whining wife-bashing hero?

Rating: 1/10 (1 December 2004)

This movie was made by a military hating, anti-war Hollywood political activist, and it shows.
The greatest military commander in history whines, pouts, is hated by his troops, is arrogant, rapes his bride on the wedding night,is overtly gay, is dominated by his mother, is publicly insecure, constantly crying and pouting. Can you imagine Schwartzkoff, Dwight Eisenhower, Napoleon, Colin Powell or any military leader acting in this shameless fashion?
The battle scenes are chocked full of gore and screaming. Missing is the brilliant strategy, the nobility, the self-sacrifice, the comradery and loyalty. Also missing are most of Alexanders brilliant battles (Issos, Tyre, etc) These scenes are replaced primarily with either raucous orgies or Alexander in confusion and self doubt.
The sound editing was awful; the dialog barely understandable most of the time.
What a looser of a film. At least O. Stone probably won't be working much after this.