Oliver Stone's fiasco

Rating: 2/10 (11 May 2005)

I always thought that "Cleopatra" is the example of bad epic movie. It was set in the early 60-ies when Hollywood lived through it's worst years: the committee influence was still high and producers found new genre - dumb but impressive and very expensive epic. Happily, these times were soon over... till today. I'm not saying it's too bad, I think Hollywood just needs to live through another crisis to become better again. Braveheart, Gladiator, Troy, King Arthur... I never could understand what's the meaning in these movies. But when I saw Alexander I thought for the moment - cinema is dead. Ann it's very symptomatically that it comes from such cult director as Stone. Everybody is in this s**t now. Hope it won't last too long.