Very Good

Rating: 10/10 (24 March 2005)

Hello, I saw this movie 3 times now, and I can say it's real good...but in first place people should be aware of who Alexander the great was. That's the main problem with people giving bad scores I think. Nowadays there's an attitude about bringing down all kinda myths and just judge them by their very external looks, which is a shame. Kids all around could say that a Nobel prize winner is crap cos he doesn't play cool in certain areas, and the bad news is that adult ppl do it too; they consider just what they are told to consider (ie. 'this is a movie with a gay hero') and have no brain(education really) to dig out their own critiques and ideas. Lots of this behavior is due to the big guys (Corps and alike) trying to dumb down overall education and especially trying to uproot the common sense of people which would often lead to fair and correct evaluations. Instead they implant a politic of fear and ignorance which actually enslaves and creates a mass of hysteric and obsessed animals. I could go on but this is not the right place.... back to the movie... critics: well from a strict 'entertainment' point of view this movie is not very good, it's more a documentary about Alexander...and doesn't have a real intriguing plot. But doing so, it fortunately abandon the way to the typical 'american movie' in which everything becomes the usual cheap history with nice explosions and sfx. In my opinion Stone should have pushed the thing lots farther apart, skipping even some battle parts and depicting instead a deeper character of Alexander, the real cool part about Alexander vision was his conviction about being a god himself...all the deeper philosophy/religious part is the real deal, and what made him not to come back home, in the movie this is completely skipped... hmm....the score by Vangelis is _awesome_....jumped up my top 3 scores of all times....finally someone who doesn't put those ridiculous flutes 'a la J.Horner' in all romantic parts...which is a 'must' in all movies after titanic and I really damn hate that sound:) well...there are more things that could be said...but I gotta work now:)
regards..