A startling, excellent achievement not easily surpassed

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2007)

Having seen the Richard Burton over emoted version of "Alexander the Great" from back in the fifties I was not sure what I would fine in the newer version. I must say I was easily spellbound. Collin Farrell and Jared Leto led an all star cast in the best rendition of the story of the first great military genius in history.
The settings were grand, the costumes perfect, the sound score excellent, but it was the work of the writers, Director Oliver Stone and the actors that made this story come alive.
The bigots that saw the film, I am sure, were unable to stomach the relationship of Alexander and Hephaistion, but they need to get over it. It is historical, it happened. Phillip was a bully and a drunkard, a bit of a blow hard, always talking big plans, but never advancing them until it was too late for him. But as Shakespeare said, when talking about one of his characters Alexander embodied "all of the elements mixed in him that should cry out and say to the world 'this was a man!'" I rate this one 10 out of 10 and only wish I could go higher!