utter rubbish - the worst almost 3 hours of my cinema going history

Rating: 1/10 (13 January 2005)

Not since "Meet Joe Black" have i felt like i wanted to poke out my own eyes just so i didn't have to see what i had foolishly paid to watch. The film is generic at best, having heard mixed reviews about "alexander" i went to see it to form my opinion, and let me just say that it didn't even live up to my worst expectations. The battle scenes lack originality and if i have to see one more general of an army riding in front of his troops spouting forth the kind of "inspiring" tripe i'll walk out. It was old in "Braveheart" Its overused, anyone seen bullet time recently? The worst bit about the film, is not the mediocre acting, its the fact that everyone close to Alexander speaks in an Irish accent when he is around, then it fades away the further the person is from him, its a kind of Irish proximity effect. worse than that is the fact that most of them can't speak in an Irish accent at all. Except for Angelina Jolie who has a consistent Transylvanian/80s movie Russian accent. Go see the film, if you have a day or two to recover fully from the feeling that you have lost a few hours and really want them back.